234930 - URL correction wizard exaggerates a lot...

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 164802

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Marcin Kasperski]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

In short: I try to open 'https://cauchy:4433'. When the corresponding web server
is down, I get http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cauchy.html

Longer: in my local network we use names of famous mathematicians to name our
computers. Among them there is machine called 'cauchy' on which I test web
applications during development. In particular I use addressess like
'https:://cauchy:4433' and they work perfectly when the web server runs. But
when the server is down (even if the machine works and is accessible) Firebird
turns some wizardry on and performs some kind of internet search for the name
'cauchy'...

Suggestions: slow down. While it is reasonable to perform some search if one
enters 'blahblah' into the url and there is no blahblah machine, I see no reason
to perform the search for the url entered with http/https prefix (and, moreover
with port number). I also doubt whether the search should be performed when the
machine is DNS-resolvable and only unaccessible at the moment. Finally, I doubt
it has sense to perform searches when the address came from the bookmark. So,
whatever wizardry is used when processing the address to replace non-existant
page, I'd suggest disabling it:
- when the URL is 'complicated' (entered with http/https prefix, entered with
nontrivial suffix/path, entered with port number, entered with
username/password, ...)
- when the machine name is DNS resolvable but only unaccessible at the moment
- when the URL is selected as a bookmark

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1) Name some machine in the local network 'cauchy' (or use some other simple
name of already possessed machine, I'd bet most names would work)
2) Start Firefox and Enter in URL 'https://cauchy:3243' (using some port on
which nothing listens and replacing the name cauchy with the name selected in
the first step)

Actual Results:  
I got some page from the internet (seems sth like Google Imfeelinglucky search
for the machine name given above).

Expected Results:  
Tell me that the page is not accessible at the moment.

Comment 1

[Philip White]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164802 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

V/dupe.