- From: Jason Robinson <JRobinson@KitchenPages.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 05:32:28 +1000
- To: <uri@w3.org>
Hello w3c uri/url list members. I am wondering why "http:.." seems to be converted into "http://" automaticly by IE5.5 ? I was playing around with IE5.5 and noticed that I can enter the following which was quickly re-edited by IE5.5 and then resolved:- http:..www.w3.org and then upon pressing the enter key IE5.5 quickly edited the address to http://www.w3.org which is correct. I have had a short look around in an attempt to locate if this is a standard or if it was a fix of some kind that is written into IE5.5 for some reason with little luck. I am going to presume that its a fix written into IE5.5 for http: strings because it works with just the "http:.." bit which converts to "http:///". (I presume it would resolve if I was running a http server on my local machine but I wonder about the third '/'). The other reason I thought of was because of the way '.' and '..' are used but its just not making much sence considering the "http:" bit by its self is automaticly converted to "http://", also having 3 or 4 dots seems to get different affects compaired to two dots. I have not attempted this with other browsers yet (netscape com 4.5 just shows an error). If someone knows why this is; could you please post a reply - or the link to the http standard where this is described? Many thanks in advance for time and efforts. Regards, Jason Robinson :)
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