245242 - When opening a wrong-formatted URL in the form http://http/test.com firefox goes to microsoft.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[James Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8

When such an URL is opened, Firefox first tries to resolve it, when it does not
succeed, it asks the default search engine (in my case google.com) and then goes
to microsoft.com Interesting enough, when giving performing a google search with
the same string, but in the normal way (i.e. opening google.com and then
entering http://http/test.com), the search engine gives no result related to
microsoft.com, so I guess this is not the "I'm feeling lucky" feature, but
something else, actually I'm not sure it is a Firefox problem but I think it is
good to be investigated, because for the user it looks like a strange bug

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter http://http/test.com in the address bar
2.Press Enter
3.Wait a while



Expected Results:  
Should have displayed some kind of error message, even before trying to resolve
the host, since the url is not in the valid format, so the browser sould not
accept it at all

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231720 ***