Craig wrote:
> Hello all,
> Just a quick question (hopefully) concerning Firefox. I have a local
> server called http://houseweb/ . I tried to access it by typing that
> into the adress bar, only for firefox to change it to www.houseweb.com.
> I am not pressing ctrl+enter or anything, I have even tried bookmarking
> it and accessing it through the bookmark but to no avail.
> I did look through the properties, but either I am blind or there was
> no option.
>
This is possibly "Domain guessing". If Firefox gets a "not found" error
back from a DNS server, it will trya dding the configured prefix and/or
suffix to see whether that works. The defaults are www. and .com, and
it is enabled. To turn it off, go to about:config, and double-click
browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to set it to false.
Then again, DNS servers can try various tricks to resolve names, so it
may actually be that which is happening.
Simon
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