57146 - Posts not handled correctly in Mozilla build 18

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32966

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[declan_flynn]

I was testing some code with Mozilla and Netscape 6 and discovered that a post
doesnt work

I tried using the following:

<form name="create" onsubmit="return verify(this)"
action="http:/servlet/com.company.product.class" method="POST">

And it failed having tried to connect to a "servlet" machine

However if I put in "localhost:8080", giving

<form name="create" onsubmit="return verify(this)"
action="http://localhost:8080/servlet/com.company.product.class" method="POST">

it works fine.

Both types of post work in Netscape 4.7 and IE5

Thanks
    Declan.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

over to networking.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Are you using the same proxy settings in all three browsers?

Comment 3

[declan_flynn]

Yes. All three are set up using Direct Connection to Internet.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The URL "http:/servlet/com.company.product.class" is illegal.  see the
discussion in bug 32966

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32966 ***

Comment 5

[Diego]

verified dupe of wontfix bug 32966: "http:/ (one slash) treated as http://
rather than /"
see also similar wontfix bug 22251: "Relative URLs with scheme (e.g.,
http:page.html) not loading - treated as absolute"