346423 - changes *.com/*/*.mov to *.com/*/*.gov

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[andrew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060723 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060723 Firefox/1.5.0.5

URL changes *.com/*/*.mov  to *.com/*/*.gov

i.e. http://yahoo.com/video/video.mov
changes to
http://www.yahoo.com/video/video.gov

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type in http://yahoo.com/video/video.mov (or anything ending in /***.mov
2. press return
3. see what happens

Actual Results:  
http://yahoo.com/video/video.gov

Expected Results:  
should not change the url

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That's definitely not Firefox how is doing that. It could be an extension, or it can be done by the server.

Reporter, can you give an example where this happens ? Does it also happen on other websites ?

Comment 2

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

Firefox does not contain any code that would change .mov to .gov. Either an extension or the server is trying to be helpful and failing miserably. The folks over at MozillaZine (http://forums.mozillazine.org/) should be able to help you find the root cause.