326240 - I'm Feeling Lucky address bar behaviour should not work for form submissions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 310826

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[James Beninger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

If a form is submitted with an invalid address, FF still tries to I'm-feeling-lucky the bad URL.  In my case, I left out a slash and ended up trying to go to http://localhosttest instead of http://localhost/test

<form action="http://localhosttest> ... </form>

results in the form being submitted to 

http://www.koders.com/java/fidD135D6B09D3D54705B397D56BEB3C38A915CF276.aspx.



There's no legitimate use for this behaviour - if a form is being submitted to a non-existent URL, the chances of the first google result correctly handling the form are vanishingly slim.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a form that goes to an invalid URL
2. Submit
3. Watch your browser load up an arbitrary unrelated page.

Actual Results:  
Browser loads arbitrary unrelated page

Expected Results:  
Dialog box "Site not found" or something similar would be appreciated.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 310826 ***