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Re: Weird URL

From: Steve Friedl <steve () unixwiz net>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:33:04 -0700

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:26:27AM -0400, Bug Traq wrote:

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

Anyone know why?


You get the same thing when you enter just

        https

and it's because www.paypal.com is the first Google hit for this term
(via I'm Feeling Lucky) as invoked by Firefox for non URLs.

Steve

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