RE: Domain Name Completion?

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From: Oskar Pearson
Sent: 13 October 1997 09:15
To: Stephan Jaeger
Cc: squid-users@nlanr.net
Subject: Re: Domain Name Completion?

> Before using squid, our customers could type an URL like this
> apple
> to be completed to
> http://www.apple.com
>
> I could configure "append_domain .com" so the input "apple" was
completed
> to "apple.com". But this requires that every company configures the
> dns-entry of "companyxyz.com" being a cname to
"www.companyxyz.com".
>
> Is there any solution available?
This is actually a netscape problem... the whole idea is a
silly one actually.... people should know to type in 'www.apple.com'.

I think the way Netscape does this is by a default auto-proxy script -
 it can be used for more than proxies as its just a javascript that's
run for every URL. I haven't looked at this though. Presumably when
you add a manual proxy, or a different autoproxy script it overrides
this function. Writing your own autoproxy script to behave in the
same way might do it.

Presumably a guide to doing it is on Netscape's site somewhere.

Jonathan L.

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Received on Mon Oct 13 1997 - 07:18:57 MDT