http://http:// & Microsoft.com

http://http:// is redirected to Microsoft. I have stumbled upon this once before, but did not have time to reflect on it.


URLs from http://http through http://http:// to http://http://www.flock.com/home/about/ will lead you to Microsoft.

It is not like I am using MS Internet Explorer right now. Here, I am using Firefox 1.0.6 on Ubuntu Linux. Do you think it is a bug in Firefox?

This is problematic because many tools, including WordPress, pre-populate a dialog or form for a URL with http://, so when I am pasting a URL, I may accidentally not overwrite the existing http://. This results in a link like http://http://www.flock.com/home/about/ which hideously is redirected Microsoft.

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2 Comments

  1. Greg Yardley
    Posted August 20, 2005 at 2:40 pm | Permalink

    The default ‘just type some text into the address bar’ behaviour on Firefox is ‘give me the I’m feeling lucky’ result on Google. Top result for ‘http’ on Google is Microsoft.

    Not quite sure why a malformed URL like http://http://www.flock.com/home/about exhibits the same behavior, but I’m guessing it’s related to the above.

  2. foolswisdom
    Posted August 21, 2005 at 3:40 am | Permalink

    Thanks Greg for the insights!

    The “malformed URL case” seems like a very minor bug to me. My search for such a bug @ bugzilla.moz found a few bugs, and appears to be first described by URL guessing overguesses. I created some a relationships with another bug, “keyword feature shouldn’t trigger if “http://” was included”.

    It is ironic that a # of mismatched bugs demonstrated http://http://....

    Provide UI for configuring/disabling keyword.URL functionality is interesting as it describes some inner workings of the relevant functionality. internet-keywords also seems relevant.

    I wonder if URI fixup happens after “open link in new window” as if the address was typed by hand still repros (in trunk/head). ?

    I want to confirm some of these things in trunk/head, before I update any of these bugs with my opinions.

    Thank you Greg for perking my interest further.

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