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Date:      Mon, 09 Sep 1996 21:36:52 -0600
From:      Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
To:        Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Typing URLs (was Re: FTP Mirror HOW-TO)
Message-ID:  <3234E253.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov>

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Mattias testified:
> Hm, maybe a computer name in the URLs? :-) They won't work like that...
> [without a hostname]

Actually, some do, at least with Netscrape.  Try these URLs:

	microsoft
	ibm
	mci

That's right: you don't need http://, www., or even .com/.  Netscrape
assumes all that.  Heck, even

	freebsd

works to get to the FreeBSD home page (since www.freebsd.{com,org}) are
the same host.

A few more curiosities ... freebsd.com is

   FreeBSD, Inc (FREEBSD2-DOM)
      246 Park St.
      Clyde, CA 94520

whereas freebsd.org is

   The FreeBSD Project (FREEBSD-DOM)
      839 S.E. 209th Ave.
      Gresham, OR 97030-2235

Not that it really matters these days.
-- 
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
Boulder Colorado USA



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