"funny" URL redirections

[Peter]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Taavi Burns wrote:

> On 5/26/05, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:59:04AM -0400, F. Duran wrote:
>>> Actually http://http alone would go to Microsoft.
>>>
>>> I wonder what RFC allows these type of redirections
>>> (try http://ftp or http://ibm )
>>
>> Might be windows DNS resolution "feature" they put in somewhere.
>
> But it's not, as this happens when using Firefox on Linux.  :(  It's
> more likely that Microsoft has spammed the DNS servers somehow.
> (exactly how I haven't yet been able to figure out...)
>
>> Many browsers do try adding .com and .net and .org to any work you type
>> in the address, so ibm I can understand.
>
> It's not http.com, http.net, or http.org.  Typing those in manually
> provides different websites, not Microsoft.

Ms redirects all unqualified searches to msn or ms proper. Remember they 
are at 'war' with google (and everyone else). They also want an empty 
or generic url to point to themselves.

Peter
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