Closed Bug 30371 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

typing "beta news" in the address bar tries at www.beta%20news.com instead of www.betanews.com

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Platform:
x86
Windows 95
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: keith, Assigned: gagan)

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; N; Win95; en-US) Mozilla/m13 BuildID: 2000022820 typing "beta news" in the address bar attempts to go to www.beta%20news.com instead of www.betanews.com like in Communicator Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type "beta news" in the address bar 2. observe 3. enjoy Actual Results: went to www.beta%20news.com Expected Results: gone to www.betanews.com
On the one hand, spaces are not allowed in URLs, so it might be good if Mozilla stripped them out before attempting to resolve the URL. On the other hand, in Netscape 4.7, "beta news" means a lookup on keywords.netscape.com. One would assume that might well be a feature of Netscape-branded releases of Mozilla, so they don't put in space removal processing. :-) keith@cs.oswego.edu - what makes you expect "beta news" should take you to http://www.betanews.com ? It doesn't do that in NS 4.x... Gerv
yes, it does. in netscape 4.x it takes me to www.betanews.com.
This is a http://keyword.netscape.com issue I think. Sending it to Search component for a look.
Assignee: cbegle → matt
Component: Browser-General → Search
QA Contact: asadotzler → claudius
confirming as I see both behaviors reported.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
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Assignee: matt → ben
keith@cs.oswego.edu - in NS 4.7 for me "beta news" does a keyword search, whereas "betanews" takes me to http://betanews.efront.com/. Which version of NS 4 are you using? Asa - it can't be a keyword issue as Moz doesn't implement keywords yet :-) The keyword issue is with NS 4. This is a spaces-in-URLs issue. And, seeing as Search don't seem to have done much with this, I'm tossing it back to Networking. Gerv
Assignee: ben → gagan
Component: Search → Networking
QA Contact: claudius → tever
No, mozilla implements keywords. You just have to switch it on. Conversion of spaces into %20 is absolutely correct if it gets into the urlparser. No url issue. When I type "beta news" I'm getting several betanews choices from the keyword server.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Verified 2000092908
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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