Closed Bug 322545 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

entering double http:// into Firefox followed by ANY domain resolves to microsoft.com!

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
trivial

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 310826

People

(Reporter: allison, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I know this is obscure, but i thought you'd be fascinated by what happens here.  I was using an automated program to generate my html, and I wasn't paying attention and I entered http:// into a field that was prepopulated with it, followed by my own domain podfeet.com, so I had entered http://http://podfeet.com.  i tested all my links (luckily) and in Firefox (not in Safari or Mozilla) it resolved to Microsoft's website!  i just tested it with http://http://mozilla.org and it also goes to Microsoft.  I have no problem if you decide to not fix it, chance are slim anyone will ever find it again, but I thought you might find it at the very least interesting!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.in url field enter http://http:// followed by any domain name
2.enter
3.resolves to http://www.microsoft.com

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
Safari returns an error saying I'm not connected to the internet if I do this mistake, and Mozilla changes it to "http://www.http.com//mozilla.org" and says not found.

given an error message, or taken a diehard Firefox user to ANY website on earth other than Microsoft!  ironic, isn't it?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 310826 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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