279170 - ulr given has ':' at wrong location, and will always end at www.microsoft.com ;o)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Ernest ter Kuile]

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

Tried it on linux and windows 2000
actually just typing http//: is enough, but providing any address will have it
replaced by the MS site. 
I suspect this is not a bug, but a feature of auto-complete

but it's also really weird


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enter http//:any.address.com in location bar
2.press enter
3.

Actual Results:  
end up at www.microsoft.com

Expected Results:  
probably either show an error and refuse to go further or see this specific
error and correct it silently, replacing the 'http//:' with 'http://'


No crash, just emotional chock at dragged towards the MS site

Beside that, I have no clue why it ends at MS. Specially if running Linux.
I noticed autocomplet had replaced the wrong 'http//:' by the even more wrong
'http://http//:' in the history

logically it could have been replaced by www.http.com, but it wasn't.

Comment 1

[Logan Ingalls]

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