Firebird 0.6 strange localhost behavior

Evan Water

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May 30, 2003, 2:06:49 PM5/30/03

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Running Firebird 0.6 under RedHat 7.1

Enter URL http://localhost:10000/
End up at http://www.localhost.net.au/

Enter URL http://localhost/
End up at http://www.localhost.net.au/

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Enter URL http://localhost/
End up at http://www.localhost.net.au/

Edit /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
127.0.0.1 localhost.net.au
127.0.0.1 www.localhost.net.au

Enter URL http://localhost/
End up at http://www.localhost.net.au/ - the outside page

What the heck is happening???

not_valid

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May 31, 2003, 7:01:18 AM5/31/03

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On Fri, 30 May 2003 13:06:49 -0500, Evan Water <no....@mchsi.com>
wrote:
>Enter URL http://localhost/
Under windows, my firewall blocks access to
216.239.37.99
which I cant resolve, but which ie opens to google.com

Shit, I started using firebird just yesterday because I'm sick
and tired of my internet explorer making spurious attempts to contact
outside sites WITHOUT my asking, and firebird starts doing exactly the
same thing.
How about firebird ASKING before making any contact at all to
UNTYPED urls ? Could be a security option.

kjlzs164

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Jun 1, 2003, 12:12:46 AM6/1/03

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"Evan Water" <no....@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:bb863s$gt...@ripley.netscape.com...

> Running Firebird 0.6 under RedHat 7.1
>
> Enter URL http://localhost:10000/
> End up at http://www.localhost.net.au/
>

> <snip>

probably proxy server?

Evan Water

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Jun 1, 2003, 8:38:24 PM6/1/03

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There is no proxy server configured.
Mozilla 1.3a running on same system works correctly

Evan Water

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Jun 1, 2003, 8:47:07 PM6/1/03

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Apparently Firebird invokes a *search* function if it can't
immediately contact the specified host..

Entered URL -- http://zork/
Displayed page -- http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/zork1.html

Matthias Versen

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Jun 1, 2003, 9:10:42 PM6/1/03

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Evan Water wrote:
> Apparently Firebird invokes a *search* function if it can't immediately
> contact the specified host..
>
> Entered URL -- http://zork/
> Displayed page -- http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/zork1.html

The stupid firebird does this :
Ask google und use the fist match

Matthias

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Eric

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Jun 2, 2003, 4:49:53 AM6/2/03

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Evan Water wrote:
> Running Firebird 0.6 under RedHat 7.1
>
> Enter URL http://localhost:10000/

ps : shouldn't that be : https://localhost:10000/

If not, you should probably update your version of webmin, which uses
http secure, hence the httpS

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miseryman

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Jun 2, 2003, 5:15:22 AM6/2/03

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Matthias Versen:

> Evan Water wrote:
>> Apparently Firebird invokes a *search* function if it can't immediately
>> contact the specified host..
>>
>> Entered URL -- http://zork/
>> Displayed page -- http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/zork1.html
>
> The stupid firebird does this :
> Ask google und use the fist match

The weird thing is the Google search isn't invoked in some cases. For
instance, when I type "firebird", the browser changes that to
"http://firebird/", which results in a 504 (Gateway timeout). Same result
with "zork", by the way.

OTOH, when I type "localhost" (I'm not running a webserver), I get
redirected to http://www.localhost.net.au/ ... Any ideas what's causing
the difference?

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Mark Blain

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Jun 20, 2003, 5:25:26 PM6/20/03

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Evan Water <no....@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:<bb863s$gt...@ripley.netscape.com>...

This has been driving me crazy, too!
In Advanced Preferences, set Keyword.Enabled FALSE.
For more information, see
<http://wp.netscape.com/escapes/keywords/faq.html#o1>
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Mark R. Blain

David Filmer

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Jul 8, 2003, 2:52:38 AM7/8/03

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You can also get this strange "localhost.com.au" behavior if your
local http server (ie, Apache) dies (or otherwise stops responding to
requests).

I was working on my website (via http://localhost) and the thing
suddenly started dumping me to the localhost.com.au site in the middle
of my session! It was working fine SECONDS before, but then it
"broke." The problem was that httpd had hung or died.

Find out if this is your problem by trying to browse to
http://127.0.0.1 (the numerical IP address of 'localhost'). If you
get "connection refused" or similar error then your webserver isn't
responding. Fix that problem (ie, start or restart Apache, reboot the
box, etc) and http://localhost will (probably) start working again.

Joshua Beall

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Jul 8, 2003, 9:22:22 AM7/8/03

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Hi All,

Is there a way to change the browser identification string? I ask
because I have heard you can do this to make some "IE only" websites
display (that are not actually IE only websites, but rather, have
targeted non IE browsers to be locked out).

Can anyone explain how this is done?

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Pascal Chevrel

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Jul 8, 2003, 9:41:07 AM7/8/03

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Le 08/07/2003 15:22, Joshua Beall a écrit :

> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to change the browser identification string? I ask
> because I have heard you can do this to make some "IE only" websites
> display (that are not actually IE only websites, but rather, have
> targeted non IE browsers to be locked out).
>
> Can anyone explain how this is done?
>

Install the prefbar, it has this feature along with many others :
http://www.xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/

Pascal

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Joshua Beall

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Jul 8, 2003, 9:48:41 AM7/8/03

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Pascal Chevrel wrote:
> Install the prefbar, it has this feature along with many others :
> http://www.xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/
>
> Pascal
>

Thanks, and sorry about posting a new thread as a reply to another.
That is what comes of clicking on buttons too fast!