53831 - Autocomplete for URLs is case sensitive for hostnames

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[WD]

When Mozilla comes up with possible matches for autocompleting URLs, it is case
sensitive.    This can cause the same URL to be listed more than once.

Steps to reproduce:
1. type in www.google.com into the URL box
2. type in WWW.GOOGLE.COM into URL box
3. type in www.Google.com
etc, etc.....

Actual Results:
When the auto-complete box comes up, the page www.google.com is listed for each
combination of upper and lower cases

Expected Results:
www.google.com is listed once, since case doesn't matter in a host name.

This is a pretty minor problem, but it's just something that threw me off.   IE
behaves in the "expected" manor above.    Case *does* matter in the rest of the
URL, so that's where this bug might get tricky.

Comment 1

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

Since Don has left, Vishy is taking his bugs in bulk, pending reassignment.
thanks,
	Vishy

Comment 2

[Paul Chen]

nav traige team:

Not a beta1 stopper, marking nsbeta1-

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

alec, are you handling url autocompletion now, or is radha?

Comment 4

[Alec Flett]

this should be a matter of downcasing the resources before we store them in the
localstore datasource

Comment 5

[Paul Chen]

Marking nsbeta1+, mozilla0.9

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

This actually seems to be ok now - I type in 
www.google.com

then I type in
WWW.GO

and it autocompletes to

WWW.GOogle.com

and it makes sense, because we're using nsIURI::Equals to determine if the site
is already in the list, and Equals does a case-insensitive compare on the
hostname.

Comment 7

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED WFM with 20010515 builds

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

There is a problem here. Go to this site:

http://home.c2i.net/dark/MY_Mozilla_FAQ.html

You'll get a 404
Then correct the URL to

http://home.c2i.net/dark/My_Mozilla_FAQ.html

Hit enter - Page loads.
Now try to force a reload with ctrl+reload button:

Result: The page can't be reloaded from net: It "refreshes" to the original typo.

Expected: URL as it is currently typed in URL field to be reloaded.

As this bug originally points out, Moz should only keep one "match". But it
should match what was last typed, to avoid making typos "fatal". I had to delete
history as well as location bar history to get the url set right again.