Closed Bug 309672 Opened 19 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Improve error handling when encountering invalid hostnames

Categories

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
mozilla1.9alpha1

People

(Reporter: darin.moz, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted)

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merged patch for bug 309672 and 309671
27.29 KB, patch
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Improve error handling when encountering invalid hostnames.

With the patch for bug 304904, hostnames containing invalid characters (such as
'%', '/', and '\\') are treated as unresolvable (NS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_HOST).  It
would be better to report these hostnames as invalid instead of unknown.  This
would allow us to do the following:

 1)  bypass URL fixup code (e.g., it makes no sense to try loading 
     www.www%2emozilla.org if www%2emozilla.org was rejected)

 2)  notify the user that invalid characters may be a sign of phishy activity
There's a patch in bug 304904 that implements a solution for this bug.
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.9alpha

  

  



    
    

    
  
So is this still an issue?  Bug 304904 implemented NS_ERROR_INVALID_HOST, right?

  

  



    
    

    
  
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Assignee: darin.moz → nobody
QA Contact: benc → networking

    
    

    
  
comment 3

  

  


Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED

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