Closed Bug 307288 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

invalid URL http://http://www.google.com is redirected to microsoft.com

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 280424

People

(Reporter: simon, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050818 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050818 Firefox/1.0.6

If you enter an invalid URL beginning with http://http:// firefox redirects you
to microsoft.com, which is a little disturbing. ;-)

http://ftp:// was redirected to www.ftpx.com, which i fully understand, but why
microsoft.com for http://http:// ?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter URL in address bar
Actual Results:  
redirection to microsoft.com

Expected Results:  
error message or a more useful redirection than to microsoft.com

occurs in 1.0.6 and 1.0.2 and most probably all other more or less recent
versions as well.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 280424 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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