68528 - gdb.org - Relative URLs with "http:" prefix not understood

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Dan McGuirk]

build: 2001021106 on Linux; sorry if this is the wrong component.

The Genome Database website at http://www.gdb.org/ uses URLs of the form
http:/foo/bar (note the single slash after http:), which are meant to be
absolute paths on the same site.  (See
http://www.gdb.org/gdbreports/GeneByChromosome.11.alpha.html).

Mozilla doesn't handle these URLs properly (I wind up at search.netscape.com),
but they seem to be legal according to RFC 2396-- see section 3:

   absoluteURI   = scheme ":" ( hier_part | opaque_part )
   hier_part     = ( net_path | abs_path ) [ "?" query ]
   net_path      = "//" authority [ abs_path ]
   abs_path      = "/"  path_segments

Netscape Navigator 4.75 handles these URLs properly.

Comment 1

[Martin Horwath]

please see wontfix bug 32966: "http:/ (one slash) treated as http://
rather than /"


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

Comment 2

[basic]

Reopen and reassigning to evangelism

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

assigning to default owner.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Not linux specific Platform/OS -> All

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

[e-mail]

Comment 6

[Martin Horwath]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40670 ***

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Martin, this is an evangelism bug that is intended not as a bug against the
implementation of the browser but is instead intended to allow us to track sites
that need to be contacted so that they will modify their html/css/js etc to
support the standards and Mozilla.

As such this is not a duplicate of bug 40670

->Reopen

Comment 8

[Martin Horwath]

oops, i'm sorry bob...
but i do not understand why this is evangelism bug, when bug 40670 will 
implement this 'feature' ? (or i do not understand bug 40670)

Comment 9

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Martin,

No I don't think you misunderstood bug 40670. I guess you were following the bug
closer than I have been. I got so used to people giving me these relative URL
bugs that I just assumed it was still not ever going to be changed.

What happened to change that?

Anyway, I still need to evangelize people about this since it will be a problem
for some time to come. So, you were right that it will be fixed someday in the
browser, but I will still need to evangelize people with these problems. ok?

Thanks,
Bob

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 11

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass reassign of all tech-evangelism us general bugs assigned to bc to 
doron except bc's P1 bugs. You may search for this mass reassign (it is 
305 bugs) by searching for the keyword 'greeneggsandham'

Comment 12

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

fixed, as we now support this.

Comment 13

[Nick Bebout]

verified using 2003052623