79369 - URL malformed for <A href="http:/cgi-bin/man2html">

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32966

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Dominique Kaiser]

My system:
  I'm using Mozilla 0.8 with Debian/Linux with kernel 2.4.4 (PentiumIII 800).

The problem:
  The sample HREF "http:/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xf86config.1x.gz"
  should be converted to "http://<hostaddress>/cgi-bin/....."
  (At least Opera for Linux and Netscape 4.73 for HP-UX are doing this...)
  Mozilla 0.8 and 0.8.1 just use the unchanged HREF which of course doesn't 
  work  but takes you to the annoying homepage of "www.cgi-bin.com"

To reproduce the problem:
  On Debian machines there is the man2html-package available to convert your 
  local man-pages on-the-fly into html-pages. the man2html homepage is
  "http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/michael/vhman2html.html". Unfortunately my
  machine is for most time no globally accessible, so I can't provide you with a
  link to man2html installed on my machine to reproduce the problem - but every
  Linux with man2html should do equally well...

  Just go to http://<machinename>/cgi-bin/man2html and click any link

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The URL in question is explicitly brohibited by RFC 2396.

The question is, does "http:/foo" really mean a relative uri of "/foo" or does
it mean "http://foo" and the uri is just mistyped?  We assume the latter.

This has been discussed extensively, and this behavior is not likely to change.
 man2html should be fixed to generate valid URLs.

See also bug 22251

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

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

VERIFIED dup

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 123283 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***