Closed Bug 266604 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

if missing protocol, Firefox deems "username:password@site.com" to be an unregistered protocol

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: tonglebeak, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

It's simple: if someone wants to login to a site, let's say a site's cpanel for
example, they might use the following format:

username:password@site.com:2082

However, firefox thinks username: is the protocol, and therefore says "not a
registered protocol"

I think Firefox should stick an http:// onto a url that it might recognize as an
unknown protocol, such as username:, and if it still fails, then return it's not
a registered protocol.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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sticking http:// in front would have strange effects in many cases.
callto:john@doe.com
mailto:john@doe.com
deliverto:john@doe.com

prefixing http:// would be a fairly bad idea. please do it, we need more bad ideas.
Whatever, closing.

No need to be an ass about it though.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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