303035 - keyword search should use more context

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Typos such as "http;//targetsite.com" appear to be quite common. Since this is
not a valid site we try a keyword search, but this is turned into "keyword:http"
which is not terribly useful. If this were instead keyword:http+targetsite.com
or some other variation that got more of the user's intent the result would be
far more useful.

The relevant code starts at
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/docshell/base/nsWebShell.cpp#706

The problem is that typos don't leave anything that our standard/simple URI
helpers can deal with sensibly. Perhaps if there is no scheme we should try to
parse the input in some other way.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

There's one other very common case out of the noise in bug 231720 -
http://http://example.com where we do have a scheme, but the host is "http".

Would it be a reasonable bandaid just to special-case host == "http(s?)" and
bail on keyword fixup?