Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140057
Non-Google URL brings up Google page
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:55 EST
Description of problem: Entering the following URL https://www.accountonline.com/AC/ triggers a Google search of a garbage string, instead of the desired URL. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.0-2.fc3 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter URL <https://www.accountonline.com/AC/> (without the brackets). Actual results: Google search for garbage string. Expected results: Correct Web site (AT&T Universal Card). Additional info: Not using any funny settings. Another person using FC3 on a different machine confirmed the behavior.
The remote site is returning: HTTP/1.1 302 Found Server: WebSphere Application Server/5.1 Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 Location: http://wermi15avip:1110/View?docId=Index&siteId=AC Content-language: en Transfer-encoding: chunked Via: 1.1 S1PS Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:15:12 GMT wemi15avip is not a valid fully-qualified domain name. So Firefox is trying to be helpful by doing a google search on the result. You can change this behaviour by setting keyword.enabled to false in the user preferences.
Using about:config, I set both keyword.enabled and browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to false. Still doesn't work (though the behavior has changed).
It will never work while the remote site is returning a redirect to: Location: http://wermi15avip:1110/View?docId=Index&siteId=AC It should work now - looks like they've fixed their site.
Thanks for clarifying that it was the Web site that was broken, and not Firefox - I wasn't sure what constituted a proper host name. (I noticed that both Mozilla and Konqueror worked as expected.) Anyway, I'll have to send them an email - the URL is still broken for me, though I found a different one that works. So this bug should probably be closed.
Agreed. Thanks for the analysis.