[wellylug] simple firefox question

[David Antliff]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Mark Signal wrote:
> It did has something like that so I "#" it out and now doesn't append .nz
> It now has a new trick -  If I enter http://wombat it tries to resolve
> wombat.com *$#@#^%'ing thing

Only if it can't resolve 'wombat', surely? Do you not have 'wombat' 
specified in /etc/hosts or perhaps your DNS server doesn't recognise it? 
Mozilla/Firefox should only start querying constructed addresses if the 
specified address fails to resolve. There are exceptions (e.g. 'about') 
but that's my understanding...

What gets me about Mozilla is how it doesn't add 'www.' on the front of 
addresses that fail, so typing 'asus.com' doesn't work, but 'www.asus.com' 
does. I guess the two are in fact different servers:

$ hostx asus.com
asus.com                A       216.148.234.177
asus.com                A       195.33.130.135
asus.com                A       195.33.130.133
$ hostx www.asus.com
www.asus.com            A       195.33.130.135

Well, 2 out of 3 times anyway. Perhaps asus.com isn't a good example since 
there's actually a server listening on 'asus.com' even if it returns "No 
website configured at this address". I've had this problem with addresses 
that fail to resolve too. I guess it's just the way Mozilla plays around 
with addresses.

I'd actually be happier if applications didn't do any of that 
'autocorrect' stuff at all, and insisted on 100% accurate input or else 
produce an error. Trying to second-guess the user is a bad idea IMO.

-- 
David.