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Nick1911

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Interesting internet effect
« on: August 09, 2006, 04:28:36 PM »
So I was trying to go to one of the site I enjoy online:
http://www.dansdata.com

and I mistyped it as:
httpa/;//www.dansdata.com

When I put that in firefox, instead of erroring out, it redirects to:

http://winsock2.org/samples/Ch10/httpa.c

Why does that happen?  Is this some goofy DNS thing I don't know about?  The code that it links to doesn't appear to be anything special...  Ideas?
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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2006, 07:06:48 PM »
It's a firefox auto search thing.  If you type in something that isn't a real URL, it will try to find what it thinks you're looking for.  Type in "penis enlargement" if you're after a laugh.
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2006, 07:50:06 PM »
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Type in "penis enlargement" if you're after a laugh.
I should know better, but I just had to try.

ROFL Cheesy:D
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