276377 - limit keyword functions to user-entered data

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Hari Bhaskaran]

Right now, if I have a webpage containing a 
form with action set to 
https://http//mail.yahoo.com
(assuming the site author didn't notice the typo)
it will actually post the contents of the form
to microsoft.com site. In this particular example,
we can probably assume microsoft wouldn't want
to collect such unwanted data, but it is still 
a risk. 

Shouldn't the "automatic I-am-feeling-lucky type
searches" be limited to only those typed-in
explicitly by the user.

I confirmed this in the 
latest firefox nightly build. Tested
on Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux

I really enjoy using Firefox.
Thanks for all your effort.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

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

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Nope, not a dup of bug 231720, where mconnor's INVA was based on "you type weird
things in the address bar, you get weird results." Even though comment 0 is
wrong about the data being POSTed (or even GETted), near as I can tell, there's
no benefit whatsoever to doing fixup on a form action, and even if there's no
risk, it looks awful.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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