Re: Connecting to smoothwall with IE

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Adam Pavelec wrote:

> On Thursday, November 04, 2004 4:22 PM [GMT-5=EST], Jason Kretzer
> <jrkretzer-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > That is normal behavior for IE.  Entering a word in
> > the location bar and then arrowing down to highlight
> > the 'Search For' option and hitting enter will search
> > MSN as  though you went to MSN.com and used the search
> > engine.
>
> I have found that when I want to get into my Smoothie with IE, "http://"
> _must_ be included as part of the URL or it simply won't connect.  Firefox,
> OTOH, doesn't seem to be so picky.  This is especially true when tunnelling
> the admin interface through SSH.

That's definitely the case.
In fact, if you don't specify the "http://" in IE, it'll default to port
80, even if you have a trailing ":81" on the hostname.

Cheers,
Martin.
http://martybugs.net
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