[Klug-general] bt web address help irritation

[james morris]

That will teach me to write about 'solutions' before testing them.
Doesn't work, how *(^&*£ irritating:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/955038



On 5 May 2013 21:50, james morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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