309747 - Browser hangs if providing an incomplete url with the last domain character missing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[willnus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

Had a typo - wanted to type www.spiegel.de, but typed www.spiegel.d and hit
enter. Browser hangs.

Can be reproduced with other incomplete urls, like www.heise.d


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type www.spiegel.d
2. Hit Enter
3.

Actual Results:  
Browser hangs

Expected Results:  
Message, that url is incomplete or cannot be resolved

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050922
Firefox/1.4

Comment 2

[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:2005092222

WFM.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

www.spiegel.d

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Oops, sorry about that. This seems to be an issue in your DNS resolver, or your
network. Even when it can't find an asnwer, you should receive a timeout.

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050923
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005092300

this is fixed in 1.5

Comment 6

[willnus]

Tested it again at home and got the error message after a few seconds, as
expected. Maybe something with the DNS/Proxy at work...

Also tried a ping www.spiegel.d and nslookup www.spiegel.d at work and it
provided an error after a few seconds, as expected.

Will try it again with IE on monday.