full-disclosure - Weird URL

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Message-ID: <acdc033d0508010851bdcbdcf@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug  1 16:51:46 2005
From: michealespinola at gmail.com (Micheal Espinola Jr)
Subject: Weird URL

Ahh, good call!

On 8/1/05, Steve Friedl <steve@...xwiz.net> wrote:
> 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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