403341 - URLs w/o TLD should be handled directly without proxy

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 72444

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Sebastian Geisler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

If there is no TLD entered, FF should not use the proxy to connect. Most companies have their proxy servers in a DMZ, not being able to resolve internal hostnames.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That's what the no-proxy-for setting is for. Or it should be dealt with in the PAC file.

You can't make it a general rule, there are companies (like mine) that use FQDN, even for internal sites. The decision if it's a local site, or one that has to go through a proxyserver (for remote locations, as well as the regular Internet) can not be made on basis of the name alone.

Besides, what do you mean with 'no TLD' ? Do you without a dot ?

Comment 2

[Sebastian Geisler]

Yes, without a dot.
But you can generally assume that no URL without TLD will move through the internet ;-) So it's always a local thing.