[Gllug] gllug faq

[Simon Morris]

On 09/11/05, Russell Howe <rhowe at siksai.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:09:18AM +0000, Simon Morris wrote:
> > Yes,  me too.
> >
> > tcpdump told me that when you go for a "I feel lucky" Google search on
> > the string "http" you go to http://www.microsoft.com
>
> Are you sure it wasn't the browser autocompleting an entry of 'http' in
> the address bar to http.com, which is owned by MS?

Yes.. after doing DNS searchs for http.mydomain.com as configured in
my resolv.conf Firefox sent the following request off to Google.com

Hypertext Transfer Protocol
    GET /search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=http HTTP/1.1\r\n
    Host: www.google.com\r\n
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.12)
Gecko/20051010 Firefox/1.0.7 (Ubuntu package 1.0.7)\r\n

Which Google replied

Hypertext Transfer Protocol
    HTTP/1.1 302 Found\r\n
    Location: http://www.microsoft.com/\r\n

Thanks

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