86140 - blank page if i try to vists an unknown host no warning

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86133

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[David Illsley]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1+)
Gecko/20010615
BuildID:    2001061504

If I type in a gobbledegook, invalid domain name in the url bar, hit enter. The
trobber throbs for a second, stops, the browser pane stays unchanged, and the
status bar shows Document: Done (0.931 secs)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type http://www.sdhsdfhgsdjf.com in the address bar
2. Hit Enter
3. Watch as nothing happens
4. Be confused as you don't get an explanation of why nothing happened

Actual Results:  The view-pane (main area) remains unchanged, the throbber
throbs briefly and everything stops

Expected Results:  I would expect some kind of explanation giving some kind of
indication to the user what had gone wrong (I'm sure this has been there until
very recently)

tingley on IRC suggested a relationship to the bug 85802 fix

Comment 1

[Warner Young]

Dupe of bug 86133?

Comment 2

[Christoph]

Yeah, I think it was posted shortly after mine

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I mark this as a dupe of bug 86133.
(bug 86133 is already confirmed)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86133 ***

Comment 4

[Alex Stewart]

Definitely a dup of bug 86133 (bad url's dont tell you they cannot be found) and
verifying as such.