Re: heuristic for server names

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
>
> Netscape's DNS routines will look up 'www.host.com' if you just type in
> 'host' and there is no 'host' to be found.
>
> However, if you tell Netscape to use a proxy server, it will let the proxy
> server do DNS instead
>
> lynx does DNS lookups either way.. IMHO this defeats the proxying feature to
> some extent
>

The Lynx behavior defeats the proxying feature? I agree because many
people will use a proxy server to cause the user to see a different server
by having the DNS on the proxy different from the public DNS.

Joe Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
http://www.laffeycomputer.com/
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Received on Fri Jun 11 1999 - 05:59:34 MDT