310992 - get time out error when using the URL for any subfolder but without including ending "/"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Ed Buffey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003 Firefox/1.4.1

I've discovered a problem with the ftp.mozilla.org website. I've tested this
with both Firefox and Internet Explorer.  I believe it's a configuration
problem. The only reason this problem was discovered is because some of the
links given in the http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=325133
(Thunderbird Build nightly posting) are missing the ending "/".

The following URLs work correctly:

http://ftp.mozilla.org
http://ftp.mozilla.org/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/

but the following URLs don't work correctly:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org

Note that the URLs to the root folder work with or without the ending "/" but
all subfolders give the time out error or the unable to connect error.

Firefox gives the following error for the URLs without the ending "/":

Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ftp-mozilla.netscape.com:86

Internet Explorer gives the "page not found" error while leaving the URL unchanged.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on any link to ftp.mozilla.org which doesn't have the ending "/"

-or-

1. Type the URL in the address bar for any subfolder at ftp.mozilla.org but
don't type the ending "/" before hitting enter.

Examples:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org
Actual Results:  
In Firefox, the URL changes from "http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub" to
"http://ftp-mozilla.netscape.com:86/pub/" and displays the following error:

Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ftp-mozilla.netscape.com:86

In Internet Explorer, the URL remains the same but the standard "page not found"
error message is displayed.

Expected Results:  
Instead, either browser should have pulled up the site.

Since this happens in both browsers, I'm guessing that there is some type of
configuration error at ftp.mozilla.org

Comment 1

[Andreas Morawietz]

You are right! I can confirm this strange behaviour on my machine

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This is a known problem with the servers operated by AOL.  I've already
discussed it with them, and they claim they can't fix it because of the way
their infrastructure is set up.

Best option is to fix the links to the site to have trailing slashes like
they're supposed to.

Comment 3

[Worcester12345]

Shouldn't this be invalid rather than wontfix? 

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Shouldn't this be invalid rather than wontfix? 

Not really...  it's a real bug in AOL's server setup.  But they apparently don't
plan on fixing it.