514931 - Autocomplete title of urls which redirect is not reverted after temporary 4xx status error

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Gregory Dyke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

If you go to a url by hand, the server often rewrites to another (typical example: www.url.com/folder rewrites to www.url.com/folder/). In the autocomplete, the rewritten url (the one originally entered by hand) may be prioritised (and has no title, but the url is sufficient information to know to choose it). If that url goes down temporarily e.g. producing 404 file not found, the redirecting url gains a title (as for once the url was not rewritten) regarding the error e.g "404 file not found".

One the page comes back again, the original url gets rewritten every time (no longer lands) and thus never loses the "404 file not found title"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a redirecting url e.g. www.url.com/uniquefoldername which rewrites to www.url.com/uniquefoldername/
2. enter that url in location bar -> it is rewritten to www.url.com/uniquefoldername/ by the server, and goes there
3. enter "uniquefoldername" in the location bar -> there are two autocompletes
4. choose the version without trailing slash -> it is now a priority in autocomplete
5. delete the folder on the server
6. enter "uniquefoldername" in the location bar (again, choose the url without trailing slash) and Go! -> 404 file not found
7. put the folder back on the server
8. enter "uniquefoldername" in the location bar: the url without trailing slash has title "404 not found", the other has "Index of uniquefoldername"
Actual Results:  
when following the suggestion "404 not found", I am (as usual) redirected. But the "404 not found" title persists.

Expected Results:  
the "404 not found" title should disappear
maybe even the title should be that of the resulting page

probably related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502396

While it might be desirable to prioritize the final urls in the autocomplete, this is not always the case, particularly when a short url redirects to one which is much more complicated or does not contain the same words.

Comment 1

[Zac Spitzer]

this is not mac specific, i see it often on 3.6.3 on several windows machines

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.