Re: heuristic for server names

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Kendall Lister wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Joe Laffey wrote:
>
> > One of the most annoying this about squid to me is that I cannot simply
> > type in "apple" or "microsoft" to get "www.apple.com" or
> > "www.microsoft.com"
>
> Well, one doesn't usually type anything into Squid at all... So, is it
> perhaps your web browser that is not allowing this feature?
>
> We run Lynx through Squid and can use this feature of Lynx without
> problems.

When using Netscape if you simply type in "apple" or "microsoft" it first
tries to fetch "http://apple" or "http://microsoft" This request gets
sent to Squid. Squid then tries to resolve it and fails returning a DNS
error. MSIE seem to look up the host name first, then add www.*.com if the
lookup fails. (Never requesting "http://apple") Lynx does the same thing.
That is obviously superior behavior. However, the majority of users still
use Netscape (I do NOT wan to start a browser war...) Therefore I'd like
Squid to have a little intelligence when presented with a URL with no
dots...

Joe Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
http://www.laffeycomputer.com/
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Received on Fri Jun 11 1999 - 06:11:14 MDT