Package: iceweasel Version: 41.0.1-1~bpo80+1 Severity: important When publishing content on my blog, I normally click the links in Iceweasel to verify they are all working.
Yesterday, I included a link to http://drucall.org and it appeared to be working. However, there was no A, AAAA or CNAME record for drucall.org org and the correct link should have been http://www.drucall.org This problem wasn't obvious when I clicked the link to test it because Iceweasel silently converted it to www.drucall.org. Many of my other domains do a redirect to add or remove www, so this didn't catch my eye. As a consequence of Iceweasel undermining my link testing, the blog went live with a link that was broken from the perspective of some other users. I've also seen other problems with the auto-completion of domains on many intranets where internal DNS suffixes are used. Maybe this behavior should not be enabled by default, perhaps the first time the user mis-types a domain they should be shown a pop-up and the auto-completion should only be attempted if they agree to it. Alternatively, maybe it should only be attempted for domains typed in the address bar manually and not when using links in pages.
