Re: polipo, dns, and firefox

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:19:49PM -0500, Daniel Falk wrote:
> >>> 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.
> [...]
> Ok, I went to go file a bug and I found the original bug report ( 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2875 ).  It is from 1998!

This works perfectly well for me, using Iceweasel (Debian's Firefox):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008122010 Iceweasel/3.0.5 (Debian-3.0.5-1)
along with the SwitchProxy extension.

Regards,
-- 
Gabriel Kerneis

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