24162 - Some forms of malformed absolute URL don't work like the browsers of the majority of the people.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 19917

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[fearl]

When we checked out M12 under Linux against our WWW site, we discovered what
could be a problem with Mozilla's operation.  Our site (as of 11:00a CST,
1-17-00) had a minor variance from the spec in our HTML content that current and
past versions of the popular browsers support- we're correcting it on the site
so you will need to rig a test site to verify.  This variance was in the
formatting of an absolute URL; it was of the format
"//www.passkey.net/foo/bar.gif".  The browser does not correctly load the images
or anything else for that matter.  Using Netscape 4.5, IE 4.X or later, or the
latest version of Opera on various platforms, the site renders as we intended.

Could it be set up to make an assumption about the URL when it's formatted like
this (such as assuming that the malformed URL is using the server protocol of
the page just fetched...)?

Comment 1

[troy]

Changing component and re-assigning to network folks

Comment 2

[Warren Harris]

Jud: Assigning this one to you. I'm not sure whether this is a webshell thing,
makeabsolute, or a url parsing problem.

Comment 3

[Andreas Otte]

The site renders fine with my new urlparser stuff, for now marking as dup of bug
19917

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19917 ***

Comment 4

[Alan S. Jones]

verified dup of bug 19917 4.xP Partial URLs of the form //hostname/path resolved 
wrongly.