48014 - http:foo url resolved differently than in netscape 4.73

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22251

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[johnh]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000807
BuildID:    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686; en-US; m17)
Gecko/20000807 (no number in lower right hand cornder of browser!)

the link href="http:BBC" (on "bell, book, and candle") resolves
to bbc.co.uk while in netscape 4.x it resovled to
http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/BBC

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to ~faber page
2.click on BBC
3.view the wonders of the beeb rather than the rantings of a netizen

Actual Results:  went to British Broadcasting home page

Expected Results:  went to subpage at lunabase.org

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

resembles bug 22251 "Relative URLs with scheme (e.g., http:page.html) not
loading - treated as absolute". Dup?

Comment 2

[johnh]

Yes, sounds like a duplicate of #22251.
I'm dismayed that that bug has been marked WONTFIX since M14, even
though a patch was submitted.

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Yeah, looks like a dup.  Voice your concerns about the wontfix over there.  QA 
assigning to tever and cc'ing andreas to verify.

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

Comment 4

[Andreas Otte]

Yes, it's still on the WONTFIX list. That kind of relative URLs are deprecated.
Marking verifed.