784248 - url bar autocomplete should not force prepending "https://www.[text]" when "http://[text]" is valid

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 769994

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Tom Swiss]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

Start with a fresh browser profile (created via firefox --ProfileManager).

Clear the URL bar, then type "google.com<enter>". You will be taken to "www.google.com" (http://, apparently).

Clear the URL bar, then type "https://www.google.com". You will be taken to "www.google.com", not to the SSL site. This is broken, but isn't the main bug I wish to report.

With www.google.com still in the URL bar, click at the front of the URL and prepend "https://". This will, properly, take you to the SSL site.

Now, repeat the first step. Clear the URL bar, then type "google.com<enter>".


Actual results:

I was taken to the SSL site, https://www.google.com/, rather than to the 



Expected results:

As I did not request HTTPS, I should have been taken to the http://www.google.com site.

While this does not matter much for Google, for sites which provide different functions for their HTTP and HTTPS sites the problem can be huge.

We run an e-commerce site at www.trocadero.com, with merchant login and shopping cart functionality on https://www.trocadero.com. We use redirects from trocadero.com to www.trocadero.com to preserve a canonical URL scheme.

Try the following:

-- Type "trocadero.com" into the URL bar. Note that you are directed to the Trocadero home catalog page at http://www.trocadero.com
-- Go to http://www.trocadero.com/zenkitsch/items/844697/item844697store.html, and click the "Order/Inquire" button. You will be taken to a secure page under https://www.trocadero.com
-- Clear the URL bar, and type "trocadero.com" into it. You are now taken to https://www.trocadero.com, the SSL site.