- From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:41:00 -0600 (MDT)
- To: Jason Robinson <JRobinson@KitchenPages.com>
- CC: uri@w3.org
Jason Robinson wrote:
> I am wondering why "http:.." seems to be converted into "http://"
> automaticly by IE5.5 ?
IE's Address Bar widget and the underlying resolver have features that help
compensate for poorly transcribed / typo-ridden URLs. This is one of them.
It's probably just guessing that you meant to type // instead of .. ("." and
"/" are right next to each other on many keyboards). This seems, uh,
relatively harmless, and is just a usability feature, not an implementation of
any standard.
I wish it would convert "www.foo.bar:8080" to "http://www.foo.bar:8080/".
Received on Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:41:03 UTC