309577 - Where does Firefox go when you put http://mboedick.orgh in the URL bar?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthew M. Boedicker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

I went to http://mboedick.orgh by typo today. It loads some site but I can't
figure out what the actual site is (it's not a valid URL and doesn't work in
other browsers). If Firefox is doing behind the scenes guessing when invalid
URLs are typed, it should indicate that it is and not leave the invalid URL in
the URL bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type http://mboedick.orgh in the URL bar.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Some bible site loaded.

Expected Results:  
Indicate that the URL is invalid and go to a guessed URL.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050922
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005092205

It makes a http://www.mboedick.orgh/ out of it (because there's a dot in the
name) and that's a "Server not found".

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

I also get a the url-not-found page, win xp

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Google "I'm feeling lucky" (which is automatically executed by Firefox) sends me
to http://mboedick.org/ (without the h), after a spelling correction.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like the I'm feeling lucky stuff is working "as designed"....

Comment 5

[Matthew M. Boedicker]

No longer doing this in

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Now it's going to "Problem loading page" as it should.