587950 - IRI/IDN gets a prefix www. and it won't resolve

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 66183

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Laurian Gridinoc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100816 Minefield/4.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100816 Minefield/4.0b4pre

Noticed it tweetie, but if you do it in terminal:
$ open "http://✪df.ws/g12"

Firefox will try to load http://www.✪df.ws/g12 (actually http://www.xn--df-oiy.ws/g12 ) which is not resolvable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. in terminal type open "http://✪df.ws/g12"
2. in firefox you have to manually remove "www." to get to the destination

Actual Results:  
Firefox can't find the server at www.%e2%9c%aadf.ws.

Expected Results:  
load http://xn--df-oiy.ws/g12

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The error message could be incorrect -> bug 66183

opening http://✪df.ws/g12 via commandline is wfm with SM trunk on win32.