718596 - Search problem with proxy in address bar when only one word typed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2875

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[aman]

Attachment: Screenshot at 2012-01-17 17:04:31.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Build ID: 20111223083621

Steps to reproduce:

Typed one word in the address bar and hit enter.


Actual results:

Took me to my proxy server's Access Denied page. It is not the proxy's issue since when firefox sees just one word it tries to do a look-up first. Thus, the proxy server is asked for http://word/ which obviously can't exist and it replies correctly.


Expected results:

It should have tried to re-direct me to the google search page for that word

Comment 1

[Corey Richardson (:cmr)]

I think how searches are done should be smartened up anyhow. One word, for example, with no period in it, probably isn't a valid hostname (but it could be, with /etc/hosts or similar). On Linux (and probably other UNIX), that could be done with a "getent hosts $HOSTNAME" (and the equivalent resolver functions in libc; dunno if mozilla has a wrapper for those). If there is a host for it, go there, else do a search. Similar thing should be done for longer phrases with periods in them, for example "String.fromCharCode". fromCharCode is definitely not a valid TLD. Trying to resolve the host would lead to that being searched for and not trying to connect to it.

Just my 2c.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

hostnames without like http://word/ are often used in cooperate networks and LAN.