Closed Bug 232142 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Malformed URL (http://http://www.foo.com) sends me to www.microsoft.com

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

People

(Reporter: upyuro, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040125 Firebird/0.8.0+

If you enter a malformed url that starts with a double "http://" or click on a
link that is similary malformed the browser takes you to www.microsoft.com. an
older build just crashed the browser comepletely.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter http://http://google.com in the url bar
2.Press enter
3.

Actual Results:  
goes to microsoft.com

Expected Results:  
should ether chop off the extra http:// and take me to google.com, or return an
error dialog box

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231720 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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