61295 - Relative links that specify http: do not work.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58537

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephen Moehle]

A link of the type <A HREF="http:faq.html">FAQ</a> does not work in Mozilla.
The page faq.html is in the current directory, but when I click on the link,
Mozilla tries to resolve "faq.html" as a host and fails.  NN4, IE5, and Opera
all treat the link as relative to the current directory and load the page fine.
 Mozilla is the odd man out here.  I have "Enable Internet Keywords" turned off
if that makes any difference.

Tested with Mozilla 112204 on NT4.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of 32966? (by way of dup 58537)

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

This is not consistant with the W3C standard so we dont implement it. People
will just have to learn how to link properly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58537 ***

Comment 3

[Diego]

It's 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 /"
Verified (instead of reopening and reduping)

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.