83428 - Links followed incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[fkrogh]

On the home page for my site: http://mathalacarte.com I have for example a link

<a href="http:/c/A.html">Enter "mom"</a><br>

In netscape 4.7 thie gets translated to http://mathalacarte.com/c/A.html which I
believe is the correct behavior for following relative links.  Mozilla (just
downloaded the nightly build --- Build ID: 2001053008) delays a bit and then
goes to the netscape home page.  How is that for weird.

I should think that incorrectly following relative links would be considered
 a critical error.  (Incidently I am on an AMD K6 system.)

Thanks for all your hard work,
   Fred

Comment 1

[doctor__j]

Can "http:/c/A.html" be a valid relative link??

Moz is filling the "missing" slash after the "http:/" string and leads to
"http://c/A.html".  I didn't see Moz going to netscape home page (I've turned
the "Internet Keywords" option off).  Moz tried to fetch from host "c" instead.

Comment 2

[fkrogh]

I'm very sorry.  I just checked the RFC for these (which I had read not
very long ago) and discovered the confusion is mine.  Changed the links to
correct relative urls and all works as it should.  And yes, I did have search on
as it was the default.  This was my first try at using Mozilla.

I'm sorry for wasting your time, and certainly appreciate the very
quick reponse.

Comment 3

[doctor__j]

No problem.  Do check out the Mozilla development often and try out nightly
builds to help us build a better browser...

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The bug covering these types of links is 32966