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    • auxce
      auxce last edited by

      Hi, it seems Opera does a single webserver request for each typed letter of an URL in the address bar.

      So, this is what I found in my webserver logfile:

      opera_url.jpg

      Seriously??

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @auxce last edited by

        @auxce And how those requests ended up in your webserver?

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        • auxce
          auxce last edited by

          The URL doesn't exist so on my webserver, it's just an example. And I didn't even send the request, I just typed in the URL letter for letter in the address bar. But even if I type an existing URL, Opera sends a GET request for each single letter typed in.

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

            What is the behavior in other Chromium based browsers? Any difference if opera://flags/#reborn-3-dropdown and/or opera://flags/#opera-doh are disabled?

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            • sgunhouse
              sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

              Looks like autosuggest, if you don't want it then pick a search engine that doesn't offer suggestions.

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              • rlucassen
                rlucassen last edited by

                No, I don't think it is autosuggest, otherwise the queries would have been sent to the search engine. This is bad behaviour IMHO and it smells like a bug or a debug setting which has not been switched off during compile time. It also sends the URL's found in the history drop down.

                Richard.

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                • rlucassen
                  rlucassen @leocg last edited by

                  @leocg said in Stop opera from sending urls while typing:

                  opera://flags/

                  Just a quick test: it seems to stop when reborn-3-dropdown is disabled. Opera-doh is disabled by default.

                  Richard

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                  • rlucassen
                    rlucassen @leocg last edited by

                    @leocg

                    It definitively is the reborn-3-dropdown setting, when switching it on, the issue occurs.

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                    • burnout426
                      burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                      It's a known issue. Bug DNA-82557.

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                      • ragart
                        ragart last edited by

                        Disabling #reborn-3-dropdown does indeed the trick.

                        This needs to be fixed. As said above, it's very dangerous. There are lots of sites doing dangerous stuff (deleting stuff, sending e-mails, etc.) through GET parameters.

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                        • gryt
                          gryt last edited by

                          Hello, I have a huge problem.
                          Opera requests every single recommendation and what I type in the address bar.
                          I just wrote "https://goldenarmy.eu/opera", and this is my server log:

                          IP - - [02/Dec/2019:16:35:08 +0100] "GET /op HTTP/1.1" 301 571 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36 OPR/65.0.3467.48"
                          IP - - [02/Dec/2019:16:35:08 +0100] "GET /op HTTP/1.1" 404 2153 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36 OPR/65.0.3467.48"
                          IP - - [02/Dec/2019:16:35:08 +0100] "GET /ope HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36 OPR/65.0.3467.48"
                          IP - - [02/Dec/2019:16:35:08 +0100] "GET /ope HTTP/1.1" 404 2153 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36 OPR/65.0.3467.48"
                          IP - - [02/Dec/2019:16:35:08 +0100] "GET /oper HTTP/1.1" 301 575 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36 OPR/65.0.3467.48"
                          IP - - [02/Dec/2019:16:35:08 +0100] "GET /oper HTTP/1.1" 404 2153 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36 OPR/65.0.3467.48"
                          IP - - [02/Dec/2019:16:35:08 +0100] "GET /opera HTTP/1.1" 301 577 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36 OPR/65.0.3467.48"
                          IP - - [02/Dec/2019:16:35:08 +0100] "GET /opera HTTP/1.1" 404 2153 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36 OPR/65.0.3467.48"
                          

                          This uses way to much traffic, and can cause things that shouldn't be requested with every single letter to break.
                          For example, when I write a register link of my site, because I don't have a front-end yet, I would create like 20 accounts while writing the url...

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                          • burnout426
                            burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                            Fix is coming. Sit tight.

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                            • burnout426
                              burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                              Fixed in Opera 67 so far. See https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-for-67/#b3523.0.

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                              • burnout426
                                burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                                Fixed in Opera 65 too. See https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-for-65/#b3467.62.

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User @rlucassen last edited by

                                  @rlucassen version 67 has same problem and all request is send on typing address
                                  now it send some request on open new tab

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                                  • burnout426
                                    burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                                    @alirezaazami What about Opera 68?

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