300577 - # character is causing a truncation of all characters after it in error message

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ullas Desai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; FunWebProducts)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0

when the user enters the following address in address field of the 
firefox "www.yahoo.###" all the characters after # gets truncated in the error 
message that will be thrown to the user.

This bug can be considered as error handling as well as  relaibilty bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the firefox browser.
2.Enter following web address in the address field "www.yahoo.###"
3.Press Go
4.Error message with # truncating all the characters after it in the error 
message.

Actual Results:  
following error message will thrown to the user.

"www.yahoo. couldnot be found. Please check name and try again"
here # is trucating all character after it.

Expected Results:  
following error message should appear.

"www.yahoo.### could not be found.please check name and try again"

OS : Windows 2000
firefox version :1.0.4


some other examples where this bug can be found.
www.#yahoo.com
www.yahoo.#**&^&^&^

Comment 1

[Ullas Desai]

Attachment: Snapshot will show you the error message that will appear when "www.yahoo.###" entered in address field .

The attachment shows you the snapshot of error message that will appear when
user enters the following web address "www.yahoo.###"

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 300576 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

isn't that the same as bug 300571 ? (can't compare, your screenshots won't load)

Comment 4

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

*** Bug 300571 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

This is exactly what we should be doing. '#' indicates an anchor following it.
http://www.yahoo.### would indicate that Firefox should look for a server at 'www.yahoo.' and that once it's found find an anchor with a name of '##'.
Since 'yahoo' is not a TLD, it does not resolve and Firefox throws an appropriate error: "Server not found - Firefox can't find the server at www.yahoo."