268259 - Entering " ¨ " into location bar connects to weird pdf.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tor Pettersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 StumbleUpon/1.998
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 StumbleUpon/1.998

Entering " ¨ " into the location bar causes Firefox to:
"looking up xn-- -ccb", then "waiting for google.com", then displays
http://www.nohra.ca/magazine/SR/SRAS/mezalta.pdf (appearing only as ¨ in the
location bar).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter ¨ into location bar
2. Press enter
3.

Actual Results:  
http://www.nohra.ca/magazine/SR/SRAS/mezalta.pdf was displayed, with only ¨
appearing in the location bar.

Expected Results:  
Address not found?

Other users seem to be able to reproduce the bug as well.
Entering a normal symbol into firefox (In my case through a typo), and being led
to a strange PDF (appearently in arabic or something?) could easily scare
non-technical users and spawn conspiracy theories, please fix :)

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Firefox performs a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search on addresses it cannot
resolve, which is what yields the pdf file.

Suggested status/resolution: Resolved/Invalid

Comment 2

[Tor Pettersen]

Googling for ¨ shows no results, neither does "I'm feeling lucky" display that
(or any other) address when attempted manually. (Either through googlebar or on
the site).

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Having a 'character' like a diaeresis, where it's not always clear to Google
whether you mean U+0308 Combining Diaeresis or U+00A8 Diaeresis, does make it
seem even weirder, but there's just no way that Firefox can say "this bit of
garbage he didn't mean to search for, this bit of garbage he did" - Google
thinks it has a top result for %CC%88, so it shows it to you.

As Mike Connor said of http://http:// "If you type odd things into the URL bar,
it might take you to odd places."