944524 - Bookmarking algorithm considers that www.mydomain.net/test and www.mydomain.net/test/ are different

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[David Bourguignon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131112160018

Steps to reproduce:

I looked for http://www.mydomain.net/test/


Actual results:

There was no yellow star next to it, while I thought this URL was already in my bookmark list. I checked. In fact, http://www.mydomain.net/test was there, but was not considered by the bookmarking algorithm.


Expected results:

There should be some tolerance in the bookmarking algorithm, in order to consider both links as semantically equivalent.

Comment 1

[sjw]

I tested on w3.org, but Firefox automatically adds a / at the end of the domain.

Comment 2

[David Bourguignon]

Thanks sjw for your feedback. You can try with http://www.culture.fr/franceterme and http://www.culture.fr/franceterme/ : it does exhibit the described behaviour.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

when you said you "looked for it", how did you do that? in the locationbar, you visited the page and looked at the star, you searched in the Library?
Please provide more detailed steps to reproduce.

Comment 4

[David Bourguignon]

Thanks Marco for the feedback. By "looked for it" I mean that I typed the address with the ending slash, while the address without the ending slash was in my bookmark list.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Various websites don't automatically add the slash to the end of the url, and rely on the functionality, e.g. these two pages are treated differently:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar
https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar/

Admittedly, the wiki is probably a lesser case of this, but there are lots of wikis around...

So I don't think we should really support this as described. We could possibly support updating urls for things that are marked as permanent redirects, which is the subject of other bugs.