269519 - FF doesn't transform search string when using proxy and keyword.URL setting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2875

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[daneel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: [e-mail]

This is in my user.js:
user_pref("keyword.URL","http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=");
and this transforms every string (without dots) typed in nav. toolbar in valid
google search query (URL). Works great. But when I use http proxy FF doesn't
transform string into URL...string is sent to proxy without transformation and I
get: http://string/ host not found.

When string has more then one word (eg. "foo bar") transformation is done and
it's OK.
This bug does not affect keyword search. Probably because I need to type more
then one word.

I use linux, but I think that this affects FF for every platform.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a proxy, configure it, configure FF to use it.
2. Add
user_pref("keyword.URL","http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=");
in user.js.
3. Search for a string form nav. toolbar.
Actual Results:  
FF couldn't resolve hostname

Expected Results:  
FF should transform string in valid URL.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 269577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[grugnog]

I can confirm this bug, as described above.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 280854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Vassily Goissa]

(In reply to comment #3)
> *** Bug 280854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Not exactly a duplicate(effect is exactly opposite), but surely they are closely
related :)

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This can't work because the keyword URL is only called if Mozilla can't find 
the hostname. With a proxy you get a error page back from the proxy and there 
is no way for Mozilla zo know that the hostname failed.

marking as dupe of bug 2875


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2875 ***

Comment 6

[Mikel Ward]

*** Bug 301600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Yesudeep Mangalapilly]

Installing the Omnibar addon for Firefox
appears to be a temporary fix to this problem.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/

With this addon a single word is treated as a search
term. Wonder how this addon does it and whether it can be 
backported to Firefox.