Closed Bug 281332 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

any address typed in with two colons after the http (http:://) brings up microsoft.com. doesn't do it in ie.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

People

(Reporter: ivykins, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

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Details

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 any address (real or made up) with two colons after the http take you to microsoft.com. ie, http:://gmail.com, http:://blah.com. doesn't do this in ie (of course) you get a 'page cannot be displayed.' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type http:://anything.com in address bar 2. hit enter 3. watch the ms page come up Actual Results: microsoft.com page comes up. bleck. Expected Results: it should have loaded an error page of some sort. this is an awful lot of work.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231720 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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