251487 - http://http://foo.com redirects to Microsoft.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Franklin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 (ax)

Just saw this at MozillaZine forums today. Apparently, someone somehow typed
http://http:// and it redirected to http://www.microsoft.com ; I was able to
reproduce this on Windows XP and 98. It also happens when one puts in a web
address. I was not able to reproduce this in Mozilla 1.7.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type http://http://foo.com into the Location Bar.
Actual Results:  
Above redirected to http://www.microsoft.com/

Expected Results:  
An error message saying "http could not be found." (This is what happened when I
tried to reproduce it in Mozilla 1.7.)

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

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