798871 - URL with apostrophe (no TLD) goes to google instead of the webserver

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 690307

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[michael.billington]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
Build ID: 20120907231835

Steps to reproduce:

Entered a URL on localhost containing apostrophe, eg:

http://localhost/joe's_page/

After loading (does not matter whether the page exists), firefox shortens the address bar to:

localhost/joe's_page/

Page can be reloaded with F5/Refresh key, but clicking on the address bar and then hitting return (or copy-pasting / typing it elsewhere) does not act as expected.


Actual results:

Does not realise that the shortened URL is a URL at all, and googles "localhost/joe's_page/" instead of loading the page.

Only affects URLs without a TLD -- If I "echo 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain >> /etc/hosts" and repeat (with http://localhost.localdomain/joe's_page/ ) then everything works just fine.

On the other hand, the non-localhost http://foobox/joe%27s_page/ (note escaped apostrophe), automatically has its apostrophe un-escaped and http:// removed, so hitting enter takes you to google as with the first example.


Expected results:

I would expect selecting the address bar and hitting return to reload page that you are already on, regardless of whether there are any dots in the URL.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

this is a dupe of bug 690307
A Space and a apostrophe are both reserved chars