You will be pleased to know that this has now been fixed!

I had to contact someone from SSC, a guy who helped fix my LJ sub once.
What a hassle. Never mind, done now:

http://glue.linuxgazette.com/node/463


On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:18:32 +1200 (NZST)
John Carter wrote:

> 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
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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
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> 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.

-- 
Nick Rout

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