RE: Weird URL

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 Welcome to googles "im feeling lucky" option.

When you enter that into the address bar keywords takes the https
section of it and sticks it into google. See below.

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&
q=https

Which then returns https://www.paypal.com

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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Weird URL

Bug Traq <traqbug_at_gmail.com> wrote on 08/01/2005 11:26:27 AM:

> Paste this URL in a firefox browser address bar and see what happens.
> http://https/;//gmail.google.com
>
> Anyone know why?

Firefox default is to enable Internet Keywords - see
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html

Apparently there's no UI to disable it in firefox... you have to type
"about:config" in the address bar, find the "keyword.enabled" pref and
change it to false.

Regards,
Lee

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