i tried it in both camino and (gasp) safari...works fine in both without going to a www
Smokey Ardisson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 10:47 AM -0700 on 8/27/05, David Fedoruk wrote: > >>This morning I attempted to get to http://vsbeducation.ca . Camino >>promptly tried to reach www.vsbeducation.ca. I got to the address by >>using a back door method I know about. That redirected me to >>vsbeducation.ca. > >I just typed vsbeducation.ca into my location bar, hit return, and >Camino loaded the correct domain. I removed the site from my history >and typed http://vsbeducation.ca and also got the expected results. > >If I type a word that is not a search keyword, e.g. foobar, Camino >will attempt to visit http://www.foobar.com, as will other browsers. >However, if you postpend a TLD or prepend a protocol string or a >server name (http:// or test.), then Camino will visit the URI >exactly as entered (well, prepending a the http:// protocol if you >didn't do so, but otherwise...). > >So typing vsbeducation.ca or http://vsbeducation.ca should take you >to the correct site. If that's not happening, something is fouled >up, either with your Camino profile or your network. > >>Is this behaviour in anyway affected by URL completion preference? > >Possibly, but I'm not familiar with those. Or the keyword/location >bar search prefs. > >>Another one which happens with regularity is getting www.htttp when >>I've typed an address using the full URL. It is possible that this is >>a combination of my typing error and Camino's default behaviour. > >There are three t characters in that, so typing is a possible cluprit >:-) Although that should bring up an error page these days. It >might be an interaction between typing and keyword/location bar >search, too. I believe Firefox defaults to some sort of search >behavior when you enter a non-keyword, non-URI string into the >location bar, but Camino does not (it defaults to >http://www.string.com completion); perhaps you've ported some of the >Fx settings? > >Smokey >-- >Smokey Ardisson >Graduate Student in Middle Eastern and African History >Georgetown University >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.geocities.com/sardisson/ >_______________________________________________ >Camino mailing list >[email protected] >http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino > __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
