315585 - domain fill-in doesn't work with accelerator proxy

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 182719

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Eric Rosenbloom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051005 SeaMonkey/1.1a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051005 SeaMonkey/1.1a

Since installing an accelerator proxy (SlipStream) for my dial-up connection, I have to type in the complete domain name in the Navigator address line. That is, where before I could type just type, say, "cnn" and Mozilla would change it to "www.cnn.com," now it doesn't -- I have to type in "www.cnn.com" myself.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Set up proxy.
Type in domain without "www." and ".com"
URL not found.
Revert to direct connection.
Type in domain without "www." and ".com"
URL "www.domain.com" is loaded.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

Seamonkey only switches to www.cnn.com if "cnn" fails to resolve.  I'd guess that your proxy is not properly responding that "cnn" isn't a valid hostname.

What do you get if you do a dns query on the commandline?

Comment 2

[Eric Rosenbloom]

I figured it had more to do with the acelerator proxy than with Mozilla/SeaMonkey, which is why I entered it as an "enhancement."

How do I do a dns query from the command line?

By the way, here is what SeaMonkey displays:

The following error was encountered:
    Unable to determine IP address from host name for cnn 
The dnsserver returned:
    Name Error: The domain name does not exist. 

I should note that in Internet Explorer and Safari, the browser finds www.cnn.com after entering just cnn. Safari appears to just fill it in, but IE appears to do a lookup. Unlike Mozilla, IE uses the proxy as set up in the system prefs. Firefox similarly uses the system setup (and finds www.cnn.com). In SeaMonkey/Mozilla, however, the proxy is set up in the application prefs. (Which is fine by me, since the accelerator service is often screwy and it's easier to switch to direct connection in the application prefs.)

The Slipstream documentation says it works on the Mac only with Safari and IE and maybe with Firefox. So, again, the issue is probably more with the proxy.

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

If you use a proxy the dns lookup is done by the proxy, not Mozilla itself.

Comment 4

[Eric Rosenbloom]

Yet other browsers do get www.domain.com loaded after the failure of plain "domain".

According to one Adil Laari of the Slipstream support team, "URL completion is something specific to the actual browser you are running."

Comment 5

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 182719 and/or Core bug 2875?

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Is this bug still seen in current versions?

Comment 7

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Can anybody reproduce this with a current nighlty?