Closed Bug 57143 Opened 25 years ago Closed 13 years ago

trying to open specific urls will cause mozilla to send an invalid Host: header

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: blizzard, Unassigned)

References

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Details

If you try to load a url like the one listed above mozilla will send it with the Host: header which isn't valid.
What version of mozilla are you testing? With a CVS snapshot from 2pm PST on 10/25/2000, mozilla is sending: Host: www.redhat.com\ This seems correct to me. The page doesn't load, instead I get a Bad Request error, which also seems correct.
That \ shouldn't be part of the Host: header - it's invalid as a name.
I follow you now... there's got to be something screwy with the way we are pulling out the hostname. It appears that we are connecting to www.redhat.com, but then we are not sending that hostname in the Host header. This is inconsistent and needs to be fixed. 4.X pops up an error dialog on this URL, complaining that it is unable to locate the server www.redhat.com%5c. I don't know if we have to be so strict. We could just ignore the %5c. Is this problem at all commonplace? Do you hit this bug often? What do you think the correct behavior should be?
Blocks: 61999
->darin I don't think this is a common/frequent enough problem. Marking for future. blizzard if you feel otherwise pls. pull this in for 1.0.
Assignee: gagan → darin
Target Milestone: --- → Future
mass move, v2. qa to me.
QA Contact: tever → benc
+makingtest - this probably goes into my DNS test cases.
Keywords: makingtest
Another example of why we should be using a mask to get rid of all illegal characters in DNS hostnames (bug 140379)
-> default owner
Assignee: darin → nobody
QA Contact: benc → networking
Target Milestone: Future → ---
I am having this problem in both Firefox amd Mozilla. Windows 2000 operating system. This problem occurs when I log on to a proxy server and try to loop back to my IP address to check my server software.
Seamonkey trunk displays : "www.redhat.com%5c could not be found. Please check the name and try again."
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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