69015 - clicking links not working and writing the url in location box doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 38488

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Tommi Lahtonen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215
BuildID:    2001021508

Sometimes when I click a link Mozilla seems to think that the url is
a local reference. For example when I search with google and get some results
and try to click the links. Mozilla tries to take me to a 
page with address http://google.com/http://foobar.com/ when it should
try http://foobar.com/. Same kind of problems happen when I try to
write an url manually. If I am on www.netscape.com and write in url
www.mozilla.org and press enter then mozilla only reloads the www.netscape.com
and never takes me to www.mozilla.org

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
I can't give any special details on this. This seems to happen on
random sites. Just trying to click o link and then it works wrong

Actual Results:  mozilla tries to take me to a wrong address

Expected Results:  it should have gone to the url requested

This bug was allready in Mozilla 0.7 but I never noticed it int Mozilla 0.6.
Never bothered to report this earlier because I thought this
would fixed immediately but now it is still there so maybe this
does not happen to everyone...

Comment 1

[James Green]

I'm afraid you're going to have to expand on this. Steps to take:

1) keep trying to find an example

2) when you find one, View the Page Source, and check the link is actually
correct. We do get bugs reported against mozilla where it acts correctly, but on
a broken link, and I'd hate to find you reporting this too.

If you can confirm the link is valid and mozilla is breaking on it please post
the url here and if possible attach the page to this bug. Thanks.

Comment 2

[James Green]

Found this in my mailbox a few days ago. Just realised it was literally mailed
to me and not via bugzilla.

Reporter: *please* only ever update a bug report using the bugzilla web pages.
NEVER email a response as the bugzilla database will not show it. Thanks.

the mail:

Oukei. Now I have an example:

On this page I click the last url:

http://www.google.com/search?q=thinkpad+370C&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=30&sa=N

Kingston Technology Company - Memory Installation Guides
This works just fine. After that I come back to google with back button
and I try to press the Next-link on googles page. For my surprise this
takes me to some page on kingston.com and shows the url for google.

It should take me to this address:
http://www.google.com/search?q=thinkpad+370C&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=40&sa=N

Now after going back and next for some tries it gives me an error in
google:

404 Not Found
The requested URL
/search/?q=thinkpad+370C&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=40&sa=N was not found on
this server.

after going back and trying again it works and goes correctly to googles
next page.

Now when I try to click another link then mozilla tries to find the 
requested page from googles server even that the url points to a different
server.
this link:
http://accessmicro.com/zone.php3?catsubcat=9802&vendor=IBM
gives error:
404 Not Found
The requested URL /zone.php3?catsubcat=9802&vendor=IBM was not found on
this server.
after going back and trying again it works fine.

I can give you screen shots and sources of the pages if you like.

Comment 3

[William Steve Applegate]

I have the very same problem on Mozilla/0.8 (Linux/x86)

I get broken links all the time because the browser insists on loading the URL
from the current server...

Comment 4

[William Steve Applegate]

OK, I have setup a page about this problem that is fairly self-explanatory. It
is hosted on my box at http://darkside-empire.yi.org/~joeblow/

BTW, I had forgotten the exact version of my browser :
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18ext3 i586; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010304
Build ID: 2001030400
Sorry :(

Comment 5

[Tommi Lahtonen]

I think that I have found out the reason for this bug. I was using
junkbuster as a proxy with my mozilla. After I removed junkbuster
almost everything has been working just fine.
So maybe there is something wrong with the interaction of a proxy
and mozilla?

Comment 6

[William Steve Applegate]

You're right, I also use Junkbuster. This has surely to do with the problem. The problem is changed but remains, though...

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38488 ***

Comment 8

[James Green]

Verified dup.