On 09/04/11 18:40, sal migondis wrote:
I don't mind typing the extra www. but I tried this in seamonkey 2.0.13
(linux) and
it just works. I don't remember changing these settings manually (under
Edit->Preferences->Location Bar)
but you can specify adding www and/or com when a web page is 'not found',
so I would assume they are the default.
I tested under Firefox 3.6.13 and was also presented with the vim.org
home page. I read recently
that like myself T. Mechelynck scrapped Microsoft Windows. Would this
explain why neither
of us has this problem? In any case, I haven't checked IE's behavior.
No, it's just that trying www. if the bare URL doesn't resolve is indeed
SeaMonkey's factory default. The OP used Google Chrome which is not as
clever. ;-)
I do not use Konqueror but I verified that ELinks does fails the test.
On the other hand, there
are so many things in Elinks that are customizable, that it would
surprise me greatly if this
could not be achieved via some tweak or other.
I can also confirm that Google Chrome 10.6.648.151, which I think is the
latest version, failed
the test and I did not see where this could be customized. Maybe getting
this to work requires
installing yet another 'extension'.
As an aside, the formulation on the Location Bar settings in Seamonkey
suggests that the
browser waits for the resolver to fail and detect a 'not found'
condition, and then retries
the query.
This goes quite fast, since the DNS server gives an error "Unknown host"
instead of answering with the IP address. No timeout needed. The added
time comes only from trying a second DNS query with the www. added.
So maybe, especially on a slow network connection, the DNS
solutions discussed
elsewhere are preferable from this angle. But then, since I generally
find it quicker (and less
overhead) to just blindly type www.vim.org (as I hear/see it) than
having to mentally parse it
into 'vim.org' (or other) than the fraction of a second it takes me to
type 'www.', I find that it
does not interfere with my working habits.
Sal
Best regards,
Tony.
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