[Klug-general] bt web address help irritation

[james morris]

I should retitle this thread to "Firefox web address irritation" as
Firefox insists on prefixing everything with a www if the URL does not
begin with http:// - thanks to it's "Domain Guessing" feature.

Realized this after all command line efforts, wget, traceroute, ping,
succeed without a problem.

Found this informative page:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-web-address-bar?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Location+bar+search#w_domain-guessing

And have changed the alternate prefix to "http://"... No doubt this
will come back to haunt me at some point and this action will have
long faded from my memory.

James.

On 5 May 2013 21:25, Jeremy King MBCS, FrGS <jeremy at jandcking.com> wrote:
> I'm guessing that BT is your ISP?
> This site is where BT resolves to when DNS resolution does not work.
> On 5 May 2013, at 19:26, james morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I do web development on my home desktop running httpd, I usually
>> create a host name to use for the dev site by adding, ie.
>> somedevdomain-com (note hyphen) to /etc/hosts, but irritatingly, when
>> I type that into firefox, firefox initially redirects it to
>> webaddresshelp.bt.com. Typing it again (sometimes more than once) and
>> I get my dev site.
>>
>> Is there anyway I can get my dev/home-desktop to look at it's own
>> hosts file before anything else?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James.
>>
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