815160 - MSDN keyword search returns incorrect URL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[itaypk]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121119183901

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/
2. Right click on the top search form -> "Add a keyword for this search..."
3. Use "msdn" as keyword and approve
4. Use the "msdn" smart shortcut, trying to search for anything.


Actual results:

The smart shortcut resolved to "http://socialdsdscom/search/?SearchAction=search&query=%s", probably because the form "action" attribute is defined as "http://socialdsdscom/search/" (and is set later by JS when clicking on the search field).

Firefox then translates the URL to "http://www.socialdsdscom.com/search/?SearchAction=search&query=%s" which is a spam site.


Expected results:

Using the search button leads to "http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=%s" - using the shortcut should lead here.

Comment 1

[Curtis Koenig [:curtisk-use curtis.koenig+bzATgmail.com]]]

I can confirm this behavior, however, when I look at the HTML behind this I see:

| <form action="http://socialdsdscom/search/" method="get" name="HeaderSearchForm">
| <input type="hidden" value="search" name="SearchAction"></input>

So the url is coming from Microsoft, this is not a hijack. I don't know why you would code a page this way but it appears to be all over MSDN and Technet.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

"Add a keyword for this search" not handling forms altered on submission is a valid issue, but I don't think it's one that we can easily fix.