[ale] Web browser wierdness

[Megan Golding]

Firefox 0.9.2 for Windows
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2)

I get an error dialog, "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded".

Megan Golding

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:26:19PM -0400, Tejus Parikh wrote:
> Yep, in firefox, I get it too.  http://http also gives
> www.microsoft.com, but it seems like it's a feature, not a bug.  The
> first result in a google search for http is www.microsoft.com.  Also,
> http://sports navigates to http://espn.go.com.  My guess is that mozilla
> just ignores the 'http://' part of anything that doesn't look like a
> real url (no dots).
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 13:00, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Can someone else confirm this w/ Mozilla/Firefox (or other browsers)....
> > 
> > Navigate to "http://http//www.google.com"
> >  (the double http/http above is intended).  
> > 
> > I get Microsoft, what do you get?
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> > 
> > 
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