[Klug-general] bt web address help irritation

[alan]

It's sounds a familiar problem. If your local site is known working and 
pings are resolving, then I reckon it's firefox cache.
Clear cache with CTRLSHIFT-DEL
Also CTRL-SHIFT-R to reload, not just the reload button.

On 05/05/13 22:04, james morris wrote:
> 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.
>>>>