Bug 14674 – Safari or webkit issue - http getting chopped, when chat is hostname

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

[Andre-John Mas]

I have a server in my domain called 'chat' and have a Tomcat server running there on port 8081. On that Tomcat server I have web application the provides an RSS feed. The URL I normally use is:

http://char:8081/ds/rss-feeds.do

This page is a form allowing me to select the feeds I want from the server. This works correctly. Now when I tell the server that parameters for the RSS I start getting issues. The RSS query is:

http://chat:8081/ds/rss.do?report=visits

What happens is that I get told:

  The page you opened redirected you to a page that isn’t supported by Safari.
  Safari can’t open the page “chat:8081/ds/rss.do?report=visits” because it
  cannot redirect to locations starting with “chat:”.

This is strange since this page works correctly in Firefox (Mac, Linux, Windows), IE6 and Opera. Using wget also shows no redirection happening. I am suspecting that this is something is Safari/Webkit going funny.

A few things I have tried:

  1 - changing application/rss+xml -> application/xml  -- same behaviour

  2 - changing application/rss+xml -> text/plain -- same behaviour

  3 - changing <rss version="2.0"> to <xxx version="2.0"> -- same behaviour

  4 - doing both 3 and 4 -- URL doesn't get mangled

  5 - changing host name to 192.168.2.101 or fully qualified chat.mydomain.com  -- URL doesn't get mangled

This affects Safari 3 and the latest WebKit build (2007-07-18) on the Mac. It also seems focused on RSS being the document type.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

RSS-related issues tend to be in closed source code, adding NeedsRadar.

[Andre-John Mas]

Created attachment 15588 [details]
Tomcat web app that reproduces the issue

[Andre-John Mas]

radar: 5348166

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> http://char:8081/ds/rss-feeds.do
> http://chat:8081/ds/rss.do?report=visits

Is it "char" or "chat"?  I assume the first one is a typo?

[Andre-John Mas]

Oops, both meant to be 'chat'.

[Anne van Kesteren]

The URL parser has changed quite a bit since 2007.