310398 - Firefox can not resolve non-RFC compliant URLs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[joshD]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

http://www.-illuminati-.blogspot.com

the domain name is resolvable through dig program on the linux host
that means, 
dig www.-illuminati-.blogspot.com @'dns server defined in /etc/resolv.conf'
returns successful IP.

however, type the above address in address bar will give dns resolv error. 

 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type the full URL in the firefox address bar.
2.
3.
g
Actual Results:  
MessageBox: 
Alert !
www.-illuminati-.blogspot.com could not be found, please check the name and try
again.

Expected Results:  
no MsgBox but go to the webpage itself

N.A

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908
Firefox/1.4

Comment 2

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Works for me in Firefox 1.0.7 and the latest Deer Park build. (en-US,WinXP)

Comment 3

[Josh Birnbaum]

WFM on SeaMonkey WinXP.
You filed this against Linux, but the build info says Windows.  Assuming you are
seeing the problem on Linux, which version are you using there?

Comment 4

[joshD]

(In reply to comment #3)
> WFM on SeaMonkey WinXP.
> You filed this against Linux, but the build info says Windows.  Assuming you are
> seeing the problem on Linux, which version are you using there?

I reported using a winXP machine. but the problem happened on my redhat machine
with firefox:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Comment 5

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Comment 6

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

See also bug 196852 (should be a dupe ?)