On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Mike Hobbs wrote:

NetSurf is working well on VirtualRPC-SA except for one
annoying aspect. DNS lookups fail unless the full server URL
is used. So http://wiki/ says not found whilst http://wiki.ant.co.uk/
is fine.
Now, VRPC of course uses the WindowsXP network stack and that has
ant.co.uk defined as a default domain and other RISC OS browsers
such as Fresco and Oregano both work OK in the same VRPC environment.
So what is NetSurf missing?  Presumably its getting the first
DNS lookup failure and then giving up instead of trying to add the
default domain?  Bug, or feature request?  Ta.

Probably a feature request; I'm not sure we've ever claimed support for default domain lookups. Presumably, it's an issue with the way we're performing DNS lookups (NetSurf doesn't use the RISC OS Resolver module as the fetcher library we use has its own resolver).


John.

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