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Date: Mon Aug  1 16:33:13 2005
From: steve at unixwiz.net (Steve Friedl)
Subject: Weird URL

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:26:27AM -0400, Bug Traq wrote:
> Paste this URL in a firefox browser address bar and see what happens.
> http://https/;//gmail.google.com
> 
> Anyone know why?

You get the same thing when you enter just

	https

and it's because www.paypal.com is the first Google hit for this term
(via I'm Feeling Lucky) as invoked by Firefox for non URLs.

Steve

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