"funny" URL redirections

[Henry Spencer]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Taavi Burns wrote:
> > > Actually http://http alone would go to Microsoft.
> > 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...)

When I tried it on my ancient Netscape, it couldn't find a host named
"http", so it asked search.netscape.com to search on that word, and the
first page of results shows www.microsoft.com at the top.  Most likely,
Firefox is doing the same sort of thing but is hiding the intermediate
steps. 

Now, how www.microsoft.com ended up at the top of that list is another
question.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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