Re: polipo, dns, and firefox

Eric Radman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 15:06 Fri 02 Jan     , Daniel Falk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If I type in a single word in the Firefox address bar, normal behavior 
> is for Firefox to automatically complete the url if the domain exists or 
> do a search if it doesn't (Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" by default).  I 
> like this feature and have come to rely on it, however Polipo breaks 
> it.  It appears to be due to the fact that Polipo won't report this as a 
> non-existing domain.  So all I get is a generated page from Polipo 
> instead. 
> 
> Is there a way to achieve the functionality I had previously?  If not, 
> could something be put in to fix this?

Does Firefox work the same way when using any other HTTP proxy? This
doesn't sound like a feature that a proxy inhibits or supports.

-- 
Eric Radman  |  http://eradman.com

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