Bug 13683 – REGRESSION: Load never completes for nonexistent unqualified domain names

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Page Loading

[Rachael Worthington (cheers)]

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch the latest nightly.
2. attempt to load a URL that doesn't exist (I usually just keymash for 10 or so characters)
3. observe that the address bar enters the loading state and starts filling in then stops, and that the spinny activity circle keeps spinning indefinitely. No page is ever loaded.

From IRC: 
pewtermoose: clicking a link to download something  keeps the address bar in a loading state too

[Brady Eidson]

Definitely introduced in the last nightly, or no?

Also, what is "the last nightly"?  time changes, you know  ;)

[Rachael Worthington (cheers)]

apologies, although between  the timestamp you could probably have figured it out :P

from what i can tell using the nightlies to test, the bug was introduced between 21322 and 21368 at which point, I got distracted. 

[Maciej Stachowiak]

Likely fallout from r21367.

[Maciej Stachowiak]

It turns out that the key is unqualified domain names, not nonexistent pages. This shows the error page fine: nonexistent-domain-name.example.com

But typing just "nonexistent-domain-name" fails.

[Brady Eidson]

*** Bug 13750 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Brady Eidson]

<rdar://problem/5205162>

[Maciej Stachowiak]

<rdar://problem/5205162>

[Matt Lilek]

(In reply to comment #0)
> From IRC: 
> pewtermoose: clicking a link to download something  keeps the address bar in a
> loading state too
> 

Bug 13694

[Matt Lilek]

Fix landed by Maciej in r21524