Open Bug 320965 Opened 20 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Double-slash causes sending relative URI to proxy

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Proxy, defect, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: Proxy
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

People

(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-would-take])

20051218 trunk If a form action attribute contains a double-slash, Firefox (and Mozilla presumably) will send a relative request URI to a proxy servers when RFC 2616 requires absolute URIs. This causes some pages to break when browsing through a proxy (such as Ebay). See related Apache Bugzilla bug: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37959 Although the Ebay URI is technically broken, having Firefox fail in such a way as to essentially break the ability of users behind a proxy to use such a major site should be considered major even if it's technically an evangelism bug. Although Mozilla's networking should be a little more robust.
Assignee: darin → nobody
QA Contact: benc → networking
Whiteboard: [necko-would-take]
Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258
Priority: -- → P5
QA Whiteboard: qa-not-actionable

In the process of migrating remaining bugs to the new severity system, the severity for this bug cannot be automatically determined. Please retriage this bug using the new severity system.

Severity: major → --
Severity: -- → S4

Moving bug to Core/Networking: Proxy.

Component: Networking → Networking: Proxy
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.