On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:36, Robert Kaiser wrote: > Hi, > > Owen Cook schrieb: > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Craig Bradney wrote: > >>On Wednesday 12 January 2005 10:16, Owen wrote: > >>>http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=ind > >>>ex& req=getit&lid=109 > >>> > >>>and then when I click on that link, it loads > >>> > >>>http://www.microsoft.com/ > >> > >>It looks like the link is broken, but I certainly dont get the MS website > > > > Mmm, just looked in Konquerer and it reported a broken link. Now to > > wonder why Firefox defaults to the MS site. > > I once read about that, and I remember it got clear from an explanation > that it doesn't really point to microsoft.com but ends up that way. > In my Mozilla here, the broken URL > <http://http//www.softwarelivre.org/downloads/ManualScribusEnglish.sxw> > also gets completed and ends up somewhere else, Mozilla sees the > (invalid) host name "http" and completes it to www.http.com and that > ends up at SearchMachine.com > IIRC, something quite similar leads Firefox to end up at microsoft.com > > Robert Kaiser
Hi, The link is fixed. FYI, it was this: http://http://blah which caused the error. Postnuke automagically adds http:// on web link submissions. Cheers, Peter
