20 Aug
2004
20 Aug
'04
7:28 a.m.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
A quick test just now (using Opera; the previous time
would have been IE
- version 4 probably - in a work environment) shows that this is still
the case. I'm not sure if it's Opera being clever and guessing at stuff
to stick on the front and end of whatever's in the address bar, or a
function of some transparent web proxy somewhere within my ISP.
I thought IE assumes you mean "www.kkk.com" if you just type in "kkk",
but
I just tested that theory and it didn't work in IE6. I was pretty sure it
used to work this way.
I think I'd much rather things to work such that
the address I type in
either resolves to something or comes back with nothing. Oh, and for
advertisers to actually give the full address - I've seen cases before
where they leave off such as the 'www' expecting your browser to add it
for you.
Or they forgot to point the basic domain name to their webserver in DNS.
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