> In MS IE 5.0 or later, > this is true only for these two kinds of url inputs: try dns lookup first > > 1) with explicit http: prefix > > http://www.<ML>.com > http://<ML>.com > > 2) without http: prefix > > www.<ML>.com > > In these two cases, IEs try dns lookup for IDN hostname regardless of whether it >is in utf8 or legacy encoding. > > IE does *not* try dns lookup for this third kind of url input without http: prefix >
With IE 6, I find that it's doing the DNS lookup in all three cases. Bruce
