MS Internet Explorer deals with nonexistent _hostnames_ by sending the
user to a URL such as one of the the following:

http://sea.search.msn.com/dnserror.aspx?FORM=DNSAS&q=wwww.google.com
or:
http://auto.search.msn.com/response.asp?MT=wwww.google.ca&srch=5&prov=msn&utf8

Near the middle of these pages there is a section, "Did you intend to
go to one of these similar Web addresses?" with a link directly to
Google.

(Those are the URLs that Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106IS on Windows
98 sends me to for the typos wwww.google.com and wwww.google.ca
respectively.)

Why don't we send users to MSN's DNS error corrector too? It's not
Debian's or Firefox's job to design online DNS correction services.
:-) Also, I'm sure MSN wouldn't mind the additional traffic to their
site.


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