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    #2
    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    WhatsGoingOn wrote:
    Why when you leave the colon out of a url does a browser alwaus forward you to www.microsoft.com?

    e.g. http//www.boards.ie

    Doesn't happen to me on IE, but it does go to google. Is Microsoft your default search engine? If you go to google, I think you can get the reg hack or whatever it is that sets google as your default search engine.


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    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    Happens in FF too. Interesting....


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    GoneShootin wrote:
    Happens in FF too. Interesting....

    It goes to the Microsoft site in Firefox??? That's very strange. Would try it here in work, but we get an error message from our proxy if we enter a malformed URL like that...


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    WhatsGoingOn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭WhatsGoingOn


    eoin_s wrote:
    Doesn't happen to me on IE, but it does go to google. Is Microsoft your default search engine? If you go to google, I think you can get the reg hack or whatever it is that sets google as your default search engine.
    No, google.ie is my homepage and it is microsoft.com it goes to, not MSN, I am using FF too.


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    Arch-Stanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Arch-Stanton


    With regard to IE, it sees it as a string and cannot resolve the name without the colon so it will then default to the search engine which is set to default in your browser. (that’s the one, when you click on the search button)

    By default it's set to MSN, but you can change it

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    comer_97
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭comer_97


    you have it linking to http://http://www.google.ie

    the URL should be http://www.google.ie the forward slash is not important


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    in firefox .. its doing a get lucky thing ...

    check what a google for http gives you ...

    http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=http&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

    First link is microsoft .. hence ... you're going there :)


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    WhatsGoingOn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭WhatsGoingOn


    error9 wrote:
    in firefox .. its doing a get lucky thing ...

    check what a google for http gives you ...

    http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=http&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

    First link is microsoft .. hence ... you're going there :)

    Yep, you are right.
    If you put in htttp//www.boards.ie (extra t in the http), it forwards you to http://www.jspin.com/home/tags/networkt/htttpreq, which is the first search returned in google for htttp.


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    #10
    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    You browser doesn't recognise the protocol, so assumes it's plain english, and is passing the query to a search engine.

    In the case of Firefox, it's configured to pass it to Google, however anything after the slashes are being left out. So it's passing the "http" to Google, and using Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature. If you Google http, you'll see MS are the first hit so, voila, that's why you wend up on their site.

    This post is brought to you by the letters C and G, and the Live HTTP Headers plugin for Firefox.

    .cg

    EDIT: Bah, error09 gets the cookie, and I'll refresh before I reply


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