36821 - Clicking 'Submit' button accesses wrong server.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22251

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Ilya Tsindlekht]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i686; en-US; m15)
BuildID:    200041805

Clicking 'Submit' button causes browser to
try to access non-existing server'cgi-bin.cs.huji.ac.il'



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Access the form at specified URL
2.Fill it and click 'Submit'
3.

Actual Results:  Error message about server 'cgi-bin.cs.huji.ac.il'
not found.


Expected Results:  Form submitted to correct server.

I use HTTP proxy at wwwproxy.cs.huji.ac.il
(This is apparently where wrong domain name comes from)

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

The page is set up to submit to <FORM ACTION="http:/cgi-bin/wvman">.  I don't 
know what's supposed to happen when there's only one slash following http:, and 
I don't know why it's guessing the hostname (and on the network of your proxy) 
instead of just trying to access the computer "cgi-bin" and giving up if DNS 
says it doesn't exist.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't use a proxy, and I ended up at http://www.cgi-bin.com/wvman?acc=&auth= .

Perhaps this is really bug 34943 (hostnames guessed when links clicked, not 
just when typed in to location bar).  

I'm still not sure if it's correct to guess hostnames from the proxy, though.  
It's possible that that's not where the cs.huji.ac.il came from.

Comment 3

[David Hallowell]

This is infact a dup of bug #22251 which has been marked as a WONTFIX. The

solution is to remove the http: from the beginning of the URL. This will then

perform as intended on all web browsers. Contact the webmaster of the page

concerned to notify them of the fix which they'll need to make for this to work

correctly in Mozilla and Mozilla based browsers such as Netscape 6



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22251 ***

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

verify dup

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Actually, this bug was a composite of the two bugs proposed as dups-of, but I 
won't complain that my bug didn't get a dup mark on it.