273822 - When the colon is omitted from the URL ("http//"), Firefox redirects to Microsoft's website.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[MrHampy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When I attempt to navigate to a URL that is missing the colon after the protocol
designator (I type "http//www.mozilla.org", for instance), I'm redirected to
http://www.microsoft.com.  When the protocol is HTTPS, I'm redirected to
http://www.paypal.com

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter "http//www.mozilla.org" in the Navigation toolbar.
2. Behold.
3.

Actual Results:  
I was presented with the content of http://www.microsoft.com

Expected Results:  
warned me that the URL is malformed.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

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