Re: heuristic for server names

From: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-squid@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:16:46 +1000

At Friday 11/06/99 10:26 AM +1000, Kendall Lister wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Joe Laffey wrote:
>
> > One of the most annoying this about squid to me is that I cannot simply
> > type in "apple" or "microsoft" to get "www.apple.com" or
> > "www.microsoft.com"
>
>Well, one doesn't usually type anything into Squid at all... So, is it
>perhaps your web browser that is not allowing this feature?
>
>We run Lynx through Squid and can use this feature of Lynx without
>problems.

This heuristic idea is also a feature of Internet Explorer 5. I think this
is a task best left to a users browser rather than Squid.

Reuben
Received on Thu Jun 10 1999 - 18:59:17 MDT

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