300463 - website address is not displayed in the error messge & different message appears when error occurs.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ullas Desai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

when user enters invalid web address such as !!!.!!!.!!!

the software use to through a message such as "!!!.!!!.!!! could not be found".

the user will see the website address in the error message.

when user enters the web address such as "@@@.@@@.@@@" and "###.###.###"
firefox will through a new messege i.e "URL cannot be found".

This will confuse the user.This type of bug will be considered as error handling
bug as well as reliability bug.

user should see error message of any one of above type.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox Browser.
2.enter @@@.@@@.@@@ or ###.###.### in the address field and click OK
3.Error Messeage will be thrown on the screen.

Actual Results:  
Following Message will be thrown 

" URL is not valid and cannot be loaded"

Expected Results:  
Following Message should be displayed 
"@@@.@@@.@@@ could not be found.please check the name or try again later "

OS:Windows 2000
firefox : 1.0.4

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

BTW: For @@@.@@@.@@@ it returns NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** Bug 300466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** Bug 300467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Dave]

WORKSFORME