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Date: Fri Aug  5 14:50:43 2005
From: bandwidth.user at gmail.com (Roy)
Subject: Weird URL

Bug Traq wrote:

>Paste this URL in a firefox browser address bar and see what happens.
>http://https/;//gmail.google.com
>
>Anyone know why?
>  
>
same thing happens when you just stick in 'https' at the address box.
firefox probably shoots out a google query for 'https' right away...

checkout google.com and query for 'https' and see what comes out first.. ;-)

disclaimer: somebody already pointed this out earlier.

-roy