281089 - FTP site names being resolved

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Premduth Vidyanandan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

In the 1.0 release of Firefox, a change was made to resolve the names of FTP
sites. For example the following URL:
ftp://customer:[e-mail]/upload/

When Firefox opens is after the dialog box:
ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/upload/

The problem with this is that it is hard to cut and paste FTP locations to other
people, as firefox automatically resolves this. I could not find any option to
turn this off

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a webpage with the following URL:
ftp://customer:[e-mail]/upload/
2. Then click on "YES" when the dialog box pops up.
3. Reproduce the problem.

Actual Results:  
It converts it to ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/upload/

Expected Results:  
It should have maintained the name.

ftp://customer:[e-mail]/upload/

NA

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Wontfix?

It is possible to change how firefox handles usernames and passwords in the
address bar.
about:config in address bar
browser.fixup.hide_user_pass change to false

This was done on so that people's usernames and passwords were not stored in
plain text form in the history and to prevent shoulder surfing.  

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

this is by design for security reasons -> invalid 

Comment 3

[Premduth Vidyanandan]

(In reply to comment #2)
> this is by design for security reasons -> invalid 

I can see the reason why this is done. But at the same time, is there a way in
which the option can be turned off? When making such changes to the
functionality there needs to be a way to turn it off. Also this behavior is
different from all the other webbrowsers out there.

Thanks

Comment 4

[Premduth Vidyanandan]

The workaround provided of :

It is possible to change how firefox handles usernames and passwords in the
address bar.
about:config in address bar
browser.fixup.hide_user_pass change to false

This was done on so that people's usernames and passwords were not stored in
plain text form in the history and to prevent shoulder surfing.

Does fix the problem.

Thanks