1238029 - <input type="url"> allows invalid URL "http://" as valid data

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1082441

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Jon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Build ID: 20151229124331

Steps to reproduce:

* Create a form with input element <input type="url"> and a submit button
* In the URL input enter the invalid URL "http://" (without quotes)
* Submit the form


Actual results:

The form was accepted as valid data. However, the URL http:// is not a valid URL.

Firefox itself recognizes this as invalid if you try to enter that URL in the address bar.

If a web app uses the submitted value to create an anchor tag, a click on the link <a href="http://">text</a> will result in a page that reads "The address isn't valid".


Expected results:

The <input type="url"> should have been considered invalid. Especially considering that Firefox itself will later recognize this value as invalid.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Probably a duplicate of bug 1082441.