279965 - Security: Firefox shows a different site than the one requested in the address bar

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Icsa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I tried navigating to http://www.mysticradio.com/ in Firefox.
Firefox, showed another website instead. It showed the content from
http://www.sailinganarchy.com/ but the address bar continued to show
http://www.mysticradio.com/

Firefox is really messed up at this point. All the links from the page are
replacing www.sailinganarchy.com with www.mysticradio.com.

It happened to me before with another website, but at that time I thought it is
only a DNS issue.

Now I verified the same website in Internet Explorer and everything worked fine.

If you need more info please contact me at "icsa at hotmail dot com"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter http://www.mysticradio.com/ in the address bar and press enter
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
the content of http://www.sailinganarchy.com/ is shown while the address bar and
the links in the page show http://www.mysticradio.com/ 

Expected Results:  
show the content of http://www.mysticradio.com/

Comment 1

[Icsa]

The bug also happens on Windows XP SP2.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

WFM, any more details you can give? Could you clear your browser cache and try
again?

Comment 3

[Icsa]

Attachment: The wrong page shown when I type http://www.mysticradio.com/ in the address bar

The wrong page shown  when I type http://www.mysticradio.com/ in the address
bar

Comment 4

[Icsa]

(In reply to comment #2)
> WFM, any more details you can give? Could you clear your browser cache and try
> again?

I'm only seeing this bug from a private network, either at work (corporate
firewall) or at home where my wireless hub has a firewall. At work, the computer
internet connection is set to go through a proxy.

The bug is not 100% reproducible. On the same machine and in the same
conditions, Internet Explorer is always finding the right website.

Sometimes, just refreshing the page is sending me once at the right website and
the second refresh to the wrong one, and so on and on. This has 100% repro today.

I'm attaching the wrong page that I'm getting in a zip file: webpage.zip.

Clearing the cache doesn't help.

Comment 5

[Icsa]

I was able to repro this with IE on the same box. This means that we have a DNS
issue in our network. We should close this issue.