958794 - Failback to search if TLD does not exist

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 485588

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[yadobaka]

Attachment: 404 for angular.js

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

Enter "angular.js" in the address bar


Actual results:

I get a 404 "Server not found" error.


Expected results:

If the URL cannot be found and/or if the TLD is unrecognized Firefox should failback to a search.

Comment 1

[yadobaka]

A fix for this probably will include verifying the validity of the domain's TLD. A quick google search for https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A.js shows that no ".js" domains exist. I'm sure there is a better way to validate TLDs. But essentially, if the TLD does not exist Firefox should not try to load the page, and instead should fallback to a search.

Comment 2

[Kevin Cox [@kevincox:matrix.org]]

This has to be done carefully though, because some people define funky custom DNS addresses.  So maybe if it isn't a real TLD and the DNS query fails.