285025 - Check for a local server before asking Google about it

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Dan Ferreira]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If I have a local server called http://myserver, and I type http://myserver or
http://myserver/ in the location bar, Firefox queries Google for "myserver".

I know the local server is properly working because it's ok when I type
http://myserver/index.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a local web server running
2. It must have a name other than "localhost". Add it's name to Windows' hosts
file (<WINDOWS PATH>\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
3. Type "http://servername" or "http://servername/" in Firefox's Location bar

Actual Results:  
A Google page shows up as if I queried it with the name of the server.

Expected Results:  
The local web server's index page.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Dan Ferreira]

I downloaded the latest Firefox 1.5 Beta and this bug seems to have been
resolved. Thank you.