262412 - Will open directories with "//" as root, but triggerts auto-complete from form URL..

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 262652

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Kiernan Holland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

I do web development, and I had a form with the URL: 
"//__quizzical__/Implementation/login.php" . It will view the "login.php" 
fine, but since I use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] as a short cut to getting the URL, 
when I submit a form with the URL "//__quizzical/Implementation/login.php", 
instead of returning with an error, or even ignoring it, it instead 
autocompletes to a page somewhere on the web.. ITs just very strange.. 
And IE doesn't do it..  I think the deal is just to tollerate multiple slashes 
at the beginning of a URL.. I'll probably end up parsing out the extra slash, in
my code, but really if IE doesn't do it, Firefox shouldn't either.. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use a URL with a double slash as the root slash
2.firefox redirects me to a url somewhere out on the web (in particular a
document from the guttenberg project). 

Actual Results:  
Redirection to some site other than localhost, to a url I've never seen before.,
probably caused by Firefox's autocompleteion search feature.. 

Expected Results:  
Reduce the double slash to single slash and call url..

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262652 ***