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Re: [SLE] Netscape Feature (really!)
  • From: reillyie@xxxxxxxx (Ian)
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:16:46 -0500
  • Message-id: <385E647E.37AB4954@xxxxxxxx>



I'm running 4.61 on 6.2 and it works on mine as well..

very nice feature

Ian

Jack Barnett wrote:
>
> What version do you run on Linux (Netscape 4.7 if you run SuSE 6.3) and what
> version does you girlfriend run? I think that this is a new feature in
> Netscape 4.7, try checking the version numbers and see if that is the case.
>
> Jack
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: George Toft <grtoft@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: suse-linux-e <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 10:52 AM
> Subject: [SLE] Netscape Feature (really!)
>
> > Has anyone else noticed this really neat feature of Netscape for Linux:
> > If you type just the middle part of a domain name, such as google, instead
> > of www.google.com, it will actually go there.
> >
> > I used ethereal to see what's going on, and when the DNS tells the browser
> > to ask a root server for resolution (odd?) the browser asks
> > keyword-ld1.netscape.com for resolution. It's a search engine that
> returns
> > the FQDN based on the results from using the location as a search key.
> >
> > I tried it on my wife's Windows Netscape, and it doesn't do that.
> > --
> > George Toft http://www.georgetoft.com
> >
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