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windandwaves
Why do we go to Microsoft when we enter http://http://whateveryouwanthere
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Jim Higson
windandwaves said:
Probably because you're using a Microsoft browser or operating system. The
URL is invalid.
I can't test because I don't have any MS software. This doesn't sound too
bad though, I doubt very many people will type that URL.
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windandwaves
Jim said:
But it occured in firefox. If I type
ada;lskjf asld;kfjakls;djf ajf (as in a bad url) in the address bar, i dont
go to MS.
also check this out:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=http://&btnG=Search
I think Firefox is redirecting bad urls
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Alan Cole
windandwaves said:
That is weird... I get taken to microsoft too if I type in
http://http:// and it has nothing to do with microsoft software as that
is in Firefix running on a Mac... Most bizarre.
Al.
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Benjamin Niemann
windandwaves said:
That's Firefox trying to be smart. I (correctly) recognizes your input as
'not an URL'. It will then fire-up a google search for it and sends you to
the first hit.
And for some reason MS is the top-site for 'http'.
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windandwaves
Benjamin said:
Yep, I worked that out. Fascinating!
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Alan J. Flavell
Well, Mozilla takes me to http://www.http.com , which has nothing to
do with MS. The browser is still being too clever for its own good!
$ host www.http.com
www.http.com has address 207.44.141.40
$ host 207.44.141.40
40.141.44.207.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
ev1s-207-44-141-40.ev1servers.net.
See also http://whois.webhosting.info/207.44.141.40
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Jim Higson
Benjamin said:
I don't know what's stranger, that the browser silently redirects to a
Google search, or that Google's usually excellent indexing comes up with
such a lousy result.
At least they have this near the top:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/
This is probably a bit like searching for 'PHP' - you sometimes get a load
of pages that just have ".php" in the URL and are nothing to do with the
language.
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Jim Higson
Jim said:
Heh. Also, Googling for "https" just brings up a load of high-ranked secure
pages!
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Adrienne Boswell
With Opera I got:
<quote>
Not Found
The requested URL //whateveryouwanthere was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.22 Server at www.any.com Port 80
</quote>
With IE (6) I got DNS error cannot find server
With Firefox, indeed I got Microsoft.
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Blinky the Shark
Jim said:
Like with Firefox on Linux, here, where that happens?
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Benjamin Niemann
Alan said:
The OP's 'trick' works fine under FF 1.5/Linux here. Perhaps you've done
something relevant to your config.
It's getting even funnier/confusing, if you accidently click the middle
mouse button somewhere in the window - at least under Linux, don't know, if
the Windows version behaves this way, too. FF will then open whatever 'URL'
is in the clipboard.
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Alan J. Flavell
Sure - automatic search was an installation option, AFAIR,
and I didn't take that option.
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Blinky the Shark
Benjamin said:
That's not funny -- that's a convenience, and I love it.
I thinkthere's even a FF extension to make it work that way with Windows. (I
should track it down -- I hate that with Windows I have to fiddle around
pasting the URL into the address bar. For that matter, I'm also spoiled
by whatever I highlight automatically going to the clipboard; I always
forget that I have to bother with keystrokes to get it there, in Windows.
Highlight copies to clipboard; middleclick pastes (to wherever - not just
a FF thing). Superby efficient.
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Nik Coughlin
windandwaves said:
To be pedantic, w3.org is the top site for 'http'. Microsoft is the top
site for 'http://http://'
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windandwaves
Benjamin said:
I dont have a middle mouse button, but that may have been intended like that
for firefox.
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Benjamin Niemann
Blinky said:That's not funny -- that's a convenience, and I love it.
Me too, though I prefer it to be ask before google is consulted, as
Konqueror does.
Combined with the function of the middle button to open a link in a new tab,
which I frequently use, some users might be rather confused, if they miss a
link by a few pixels.
That's the usual convention under UNIX and it always takes me a few moments
too, until I realize that this does not work under Win...
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Antonio Forza
I just googled http and Microsoft came up first.
When I put http://http://whateveryouwanthere in the address bar in
Fireforx I was redirected to Microsoft. But when I put it in the
address bar of IE I got a 404.
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Stewart Gordon
Under SeaMonkey on a Mac, I get
While trying to retrieve the URL:
http://http.lboro.ac.uk//whateveryouwanthere
The following error was encountered:
Unable to determine IP address from host name for http.lboro.ac.uk
Stewart.
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