49460 - keyword search doesn't redirect properly.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Brien]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000817
BuildID:    20000081708

Typing a word in the location bar searches for a match at keyword.netscape.com,
and if it finds a URL which says "http://www.[keyword].com", it should redirect
to that page.
This doesn't work properly. The page (HTML only) is opened, but the location bar
says keyword:[keyword]; all links are then relative to the non-existant url
"keyword:[keyword]", so images, links, stylesheets etc aren't correctly
referenced, so don't work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type a word into the location bar eg:microsoft
2.Press enter.
3.Wait while mozilla contacts keyword.netscape.com, and displays the page you want.


Actual Results:  The location bar now says "keyword:microsoft". Images, links,
stylesheets etc which are referenced relatively (ie without any protocol name or
anything) aren't loaded. Links point to "/foo.bar" instead of
"http://www.microsoft.com/foo.bar".

Expected Results:  After contacting keyword.netscape.com, mozilla should
redirect to "http://www.microsoft.com", and all links, images, stylesheets etc
will be referenced correctly.

This is NOT a duplicate of bug 41094.
Happens whether the sidebar is open, closed or hidden.

I've tried it with "microsoft", "dilbert", "msn" and "altavista". However,
altavista is unaffected as all links on the page are absolute.

This bug makes keyword searching quite useless.

Comment 1

[Stephen Walker]

confirming using the 2000081708 nightly on win2k

Comment 2

[Chris Brien]

It seems that no redirect headers are processed correctly, not just the ones
from keyword.netscape.com
The simple perl script following causes the exact same mess.
See also bug 38507

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
$cgiobject = new CGI;
print ($cgiobject->redirect("http://www.microsoft.com"));

Comment 3

[Chris Brien]

See also:
bug 32359
bug 42236
bug 43230
bug 48200 <-
etcetera

A lot of bugs seem to be reported from the fact that a redirect doesn't
correctly give the base URL. This needs to be fixed.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

over to Networking for duplication (I guess).

Comment 5

[Chris Brien]

marking as dependend on bug 48200.

Comment 6

[Chris Brien]

This seems to be fixed as bug 48200 has been fixed.

Comment 7

[Keyser Sose]

Works for Me
Platform: PC
OS: Windows 98
Mozilla Version: 2000100508

Marking as Verified