779132 - awesome bar miscompletes adding 'www.wc' to start of URI

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 775072

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[eda]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

I cleared all Firefox history.  There is a local host on my network called wcl-linux-live.  I typed in the address bar

wcl-linux-live/cgi-bin/reconcile_to_sampler

and pressed Enter.  At the moment I pressed Enter, the URI displayed on screen was exactly that typed above.


Actual results:

The URI mysteriously got changed to

www.wcwcl-linux-live.com/cgi-bin/reconcile_to_sampler

Note the 'www.wc' prefix and '.com' suffix added to the hostname.  These changes were not visible in the address bar or any autocompletion list.  They appeared only after I had pressed Enter.


Expected results:

If a web address is typed by the user and the user hits Enter, without selecting any kind of autocomplete option, then the browser must go to that exact address (possibly adding http://).

This is similar to bug 765337 but worse, since here not just 'www.' but the strange 'www.wc' is being prefixed to the hostname.

Comment 2

[Loic]

eda, I read your email. Indeed, it's about a local server with a different name than localhost.
So I think it's a dupe of bug 17657, what do you think?

Comment 3

[eda]

I do not think this is a duplicate of bug 17657 since this is a problem with the Awesome bar while bug 17657 dates from ten years before the Awesome Bar was introduced.  The symptoms are similar but it is not the same bug.  It would not help the Firefox developers to merge this bug with the bug from 1999.

A closer candidate is bug 765337, since although the behaviour is a bit different, the principle is the same: go to exactly the address that was shown on screen, do not change it.