Re: Squid & Netscape "shortcut"

From: Matt Isleb <kermit@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 13:35:06 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Dave Pascoe wrote:

> You know that cute little feature in Netscape that lets you type in,
> say, just 'apple' in the Location window and it then tries, in turn:
>
> apple.com
> www.apple.com
>
> ? Many of our users like this feature...so much, in fact, that I've run
> into this as an obstacle to the company-wide deployment of my Squid
> cache.
>
> Has anyone implemented this rewriting in Squid? Is it undesirable?
> If there's demand, I may take a stab at it and submit diffs to the
> development team.

Yes, this very point was brought up to me by the instructors that teach
internet classes here at the school. While I personally don't use this
"feature," the instuctors liked it. They would be happy to see it working
again.

Matt
Received on Wed Aug 06 1997 - 12:17:34 MDT

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