276101 - ftp problem if ftp in the Domain

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Page Info Window, defect)

Description

[Andreas Hepp]

If man your URL opens the e.g. ftp lan.de is called means the Browser it around 
a web page acts with ftp Protocol. But with HTTP://ftp lan.de or www.ftp-lan.de 
goes everything perfectly

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz] (OOO: back Aug 26)]

I have no idea what this bug is saying my best guess:

   "site names" entered in the URL bar without a scheme (http:, ftp:, etc)
   should always use http: even if ftp is the machine name.

If that's what this bug is saying then it's as-designed. If that's not what
you're saying then please add more details, steps, examples, something, and reopen.

A missing scheme is actually invalid and we have to guess. Some browsers always
tack www. on the front and .com on the end, under some circumstances we treat it
as a keyword and do a search, and so on: all guesses by the browser. We've found
an overwhelmingly large percentage of the time users enter a host that looks
like ftp.<something> they want to use the ftp protocol, so that's what our
browsers guess in that situation.

If it's a host you want to reach multiple times then you can create a bookmark,
and give it a keyword of the host name.

Not a security exploit that requires confidentiality.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

Also not a page info bug, a blocker bug, or a crash bug....