326264 - Unable to visit sites whose hostnames start with a hyphen (leading -)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 196852

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Max Powers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060204 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060204 Firefox/1.5

Firefox cannot correctly interpret sites that begin with a -. There are several deviantart members that spell their names in such a way (the one above and -kol for example) that cannot be accessed through Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter URL
2. Click GO
3. 

Actual Results:  
The Server not found page loads instead of the website.

Expected Results:  
Go to the proper URL

Comment 1

[u63580]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060207 Firefox/1.6a1

WFM

Comment 2

[Max Powers]

Perhaps a Linux bug? Can anyone confirm this on a Linux build?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060205 Firefox/1.6a1

I think this is just a difference between the networking libraries on different operating systems: Windows and Mac pass invalid hostnames to DNS servers, Linux doesn't.

Comment 4

[Max Powers]

Hopefully someone can fix it in the Linux community. Its a pretty bad bug...

Comment 5

[zug_treno]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196852 ***