80175 - Mozilla reports hostname lookup failure when following HTTP 301 redirects

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Ritu Raj Tiwari]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505
BuildID:    2001050515

I go to this page served by apache, say, http://foo.bar/someDirectory I leave
out the trailing slash (/) character. The web server comes back with "301 Moved
Permanently" giving a modified URL *with* the trailing slash. Mozilla is unable
to handle this and complains "foo.bar not found. Check the name and try again"

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to a web server that send 301 redirects for URLs that need trailing
slahes
2. Watch Mozilla throw a DNS error

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Worksforme in 05/06 and 05/14 builds on Win98 at 
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarkelts.  Does this only happen for you at a 
specific site, or does it happen with all 301 redirects?

Comment 2

[Ritu Raj Tiwari]

Discovered problems with the server. Mozilla is okay! The URL where the server 
redirected mozilla was not okay.

Thanks. BTW, the URL you gave in your comments throws a 404, not a 301

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Oops, that's a 404 because I accidentally switched the 'e' and the 'l' at the 
end.

Comment 4

[John Unruh]

verified.