280424 - Malformed url request redirects to Get Windows site via automatic Google search

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[bennettpat]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041204 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0.x.2-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041204 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0.x.2-1)

Any time http:// is doubled in the address bar, the I'm feeling lucky search to
Google automatically redirects the browser to Microsofts web site.  A simple
http://http:// will get the same result.  When you go to Googles web site and
execute the same search using their "I'm feeling lucky" button, there is NO
result returned.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Type in http://http:// (followed by any address you wish or by itself)
2.  Hit enter
3.

Actual Results:  
Rerouted to Microsoft.com

Expected Results:  
Bad DNS request, name unresolvable.

Comment 1

[Dan Erikson]

It looks like the slashes are removed on the second, and then submitted to
Google search. This brings up microsoft.com as the first match. This probably
isn't a bug.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>When you go to Googles web site and
>execute the same search using their "I'm feeling lucky" button, there is NO
>result returned.

Wtong, enter "http://" as search term and microsoft ist the first hit

>Expected Results:  
>Bad DNS request, name unresolvable.

Wrong, you can only expect that if you disable the lucky search

-> invalid

Comment 3

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** Bug 307288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[timeless]

fwiw, the url handling was fixed by bug 263213, but matti is correct this bug's expected results were wrong thus, Verified Invalid.