616878 - Please enter a valid hostname on IPv6 addresses

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[gavinspearhead]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101205 Firefox-4.0/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101205 Firefox-4.0/4.0b8pre

When entering an IPv6 address in Firefox-4 it give an alert saying "Please enter a valid hostname". Then the page loads correctly. Like http://[2001::1:2]/foo

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter http://[2001::1:2]/foo in address bar
2. click enter
3.
Actual Results:  
an alert saying "Please enter a valid hostname". Then the page loads correctly. 

Expected Results:  
no alert saying "Please enter a valid hostname" only the page loads correctly.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Any idea when this started happening?

Comment 2

[gavinspearhead]

no not specifically. I noticed it only this weekend - friday or so. I don't like to type ipv6 addresses.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Would you be willing to try some nightlies to pin it down?  I'd do it, but I don't have an IPV6 setup; for me trying to load the url just shows an error page with no alert.

Also, just to make sure, does this happen in safe mode?

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I don't think that we have a triager on linux 64bit and a working IPv6 setup :-(

Comment 5

[gavinspearhead]

Silly me. Turned out to be a addon anyway. Cookie monster. Anyawy if you need a triager on linux 64bit and a working IPv6 setup any time. let me know. I could run some tests.