58204 - Forms forget Hostname in link

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22251

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Jens-Uwe]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001026
BuildID:    2000102621

The Submit sometimes does not include the hostname when needed. It works fine
with Netscape 4.x


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to
http://www.camcorder-online.de/shop/ProductDetail.php?ProductID=31&nextpage=%2Fshop%2FProductTree.php%3FCategoryID%3D18%26PPP%3D10%26SP%3D0

2. click at "Stueck in den Warenkorb"


Actual Results:  I get a message from my proxie like this:
Error 400 - Host name not recognized or host not found - URL
http://shop/ProductTree.php?CategoryID=18&PPP=10&SP=0.

As you can see, in the URL is no host name, which causes this to fail.


Expected Results:  The browser should send the correct submit and should go to
the correct page after putting the product into the basket.

Comment 1

[Chris Siebenmann]

 I am not sure what should be done about this bug. The version of it I am
testing with is to look at the top level page, http://www.camcorder-online.de/.
This refreshes to '/shop/default.php', which in turn serves up a 302 result
with 'Location: http:Welcome.php'. Both lynx and Mozilla choke madly at this
point; Netscape 4.x soldiers on.

 As far as I can see from a quick reading of things linked in at the W3C,
this Location: return is invalid; it appears that Location: fields must be
absolute URIs (including host and path). This means that Mozilla is not
technically in error to puke here. Whether it should work hard to choke
this down in the name of Netscape 4.x (and possibly IE) compatability I
leave to others.

 If this is a genuine bug/feature wanted, I suspect it actually belongs in
Networking.

 It is possible that this is not exactly what the reporter is seeing. While
I tried the quoted URL, it puked SQL errors et al all over my screen and
didn't come up with a link as described by the reporter. Hence my trying the
top-level.

 I get slightly different results with and without a proxy. With a proxy,
I get a message that the proxy can't find Welcome.php; without a proxy, I
get a message from Mozilla itself that 'www.camcorder-online.de' can't be
found.

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

I am supposing this is a network error.

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Reporter is this still a problem in the latest nightly builds?

Comment 4

[Jens-Uwe]

I get the following error:
www.camcorder-online.de could not be found. Please check name and try again.
It works fine with NS4.x
It seems to me, that the bug is still not fixed!

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

I am getting all kinds of errors all over the place my guess is this is very
badly designed HTML. The code is a mess. Anyone else care to comment on it?

Comment 6

[Diego]

see also similar wontfix bug 22251: "Relative URLs with scheme (e.g.,
http:page.html) not loading - treated as absolute"

Comment 7

[Diego]

I think it's really a dupe of wontfix bug 22251: "Relative URLs with scheme
(e.g.,http:page.html) not loading - treated as absolute"

See also similar wontfix bug 32966: "http:/ (one slash) treated as http://
rather than /"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22251 ***

Comment 8

[timeless]

vrfy dupe