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. > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > New Zealand > > 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. >
