289037 - The typo on the URL website redirects you to microsoft.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ming]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Any typo in the URL with the http://http://www.something.com will redirect you
to microsoft.com. This happens primarily on forums when someone mis-typed the
link or if the forum puts http:// automatically and the person typed that in as
well. I believe it should automatically see that its a typo and redirect the
browser to the approriate address. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://http//www.google.com
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Actual Results:  
The browser goes to http://www.microsoft.com

Expected Results:  
Gone to http://www.google.com

Comment 1

[j.j.]

Very interesting.
My FF1.0 (german Version on win98) goes to http://www.spiegel.de/
Is this a very special kind of sponsoring?

Comment 2

[Charles Fenwick]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231720 ***