On Tue, May 31, 2005 4:18 pm, John Carter said:
> Oh dearie me...
>
> http://glue.linuxgazette.com/node/463
>
> Has the web site url for Canterbury Linux Users Group (CLUG) as ...
> http://http//canterbury.lug.net.nz

I tried to fix it, but I think I lost the password or something, you will
see I also posted the correct URL as a comment lower on the page. Somehow
the post got recorded three times.

>
> Unfortunately, in the latest versions of firefox, it is very very
> friendly.
>
> It takes that malformed URL as says, aha, the part after http:// should be
> a hostname.  There is no host with the name "http"
>
> I will ask Google what http is and trust to whatever google says.

not here it doesn't. it gets a dumb error page on my DSE adsl router.

I think it is a dns thing.

>
> For reasons I can't really grasp, www.microsoft.com shows up as the number
> one search item for http.
>
> Thus firefox happily redirects the link to www.microsoft.com.
>
> As I said, the Glue is coming unstuck with Firefox.
>
>
> Why Microsoft should be number one destination for the term http I do not
> know.
>
> I think they have spent a lot of money on a SEO.
>
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>
> Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law.
>
> "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong
> later."
>
> From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
>


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