95707 - Domain guessing: typing "mozilla" goes to "www.mozilla.com", a non-existent domain

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[benc]

Probably a dupe of some other DNS bug, but worth filing separately to illustrate
the point:

STEPS:
1- Turn off "Internet Keywords" in Prefs | Smart browsing.
2- Type "mozilla" and hit return in URL field.

OBSERVED RESULTS:
Gets error connecting b/c there is no mozila.mcom.com (mcom.com is my local
domain), and there is no www.mozilla.com.

EXPECTED RESULTS:
We probably need to refine how this works to either include more than
www.<word>.com, like .org, and .net.

Or, we probably need to add some more flexible feature to allow user/vendor
configuration.

If you type "microsoft", it works... sigh.

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I'd love to remove this autocomplete feature but I nkow that I'll lose that
argument, so I won't try. This is a dupe, I think, as well

Comment 2

[Chase Tingley]

I'm pretty sure bug 37867 is the dup, though that discussion rambles a bit.
  

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37867 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

Gee, I guess it was a dupe :)

Comment 4

[benc]

REOPEN to correct dupe.

Comment 5

[benc]

I think mozilla.org paid for mozilla.com...

benc% telnet www.mozilla.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.mozilla.com

Trying 207.126.111.202...
Connected to h-207-126-111-202-mozilla.sv.meer.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 22:37:12 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) PHP/4.1.2
Location: http://www.mozilla.org/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>301 Moved Permanently</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Moved Permanently</H1>
The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/">here</A>.<P>
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.mozilla.com Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.