265958 - if an url is passed composed of two "http://" parts, www.microsoft.com homepage is shown!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[stefano galli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040928 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040928 Firefox/0.9.3

if an url is passed composed of two "http://" parts, www.microsoft.com homepage
is shown!
for example try http://http://www.debian.org or
http://http://www.whatever-you-want-to-try.com
If you search "http" in google, microsoft homepage is indeed the first result.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. type http://http://www.debian.org in the address bar
2. press enter
3. wait for www.microsoft.com to load

Actual Results:  
Microsoft homepage showed.

Expected Results:  
An error message would be more suitable

this happens to another person i know who uses mozilla firefox

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

this being an invalid URL, firefox does a "I'm feeling lucky" query on google.
the result of that query is microsoft.

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