error when browsing tomcat without http

[William]

When I browse tomcat jsp page with http://localhost:8080 in IE, it
works perfectly fine. However, when I hit the page with
localhost:8080 (with no http:// protocol specified in IE), it returned
"invalid syntax error".

How do I make it to make no matter user types the address with http://
and without it?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Erwin Moller]

When I browse tomcat jsp page with http://localhost:8080 in IE, it
works perfectly fine. However, when I hit the page with
localhost:8080 (with no http:// protocol specified in IE), it returned
"invalid syntax error".

How do I make it to make no matter user types the address with http://
and without it?

Thanks a lot!

You don't.
It is a browser-thing.
When you type something.somewhere.com, IE ASSUMES that you do this on port
80, the HTTP-port, so it makes this into http://something.somewhere.com

When you want port 808, just keep adding :8080

Good luck,
Erwin

 

[Bob Kranson]

You can change IE's behavior via the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ URL\Prefixes

Add String Value:
Name=servletname
Value=http://localhost:8080/

Now, you open a run box or browser and type:
servletname/index.html

You get: http://localhost:8080/servletname/index.html

HTH,
Bob Kranson

Related article on Technet (look at bottom):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;178692

"Erwin Moller"