[9629] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL Expansion proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Kosut)
Mon Jan 15 23:38:44 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:14:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Alexei Kosut <akosut@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us>
To: Israel del Rio <idelrio@abstraction.com>
Cc: Ryan Grant <rgrant@spry.com>, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199601160344.UAA01111@teal.csn.net>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Israel del Rio wrote:
> Ryan, I tried it and it sure looks as if you went a step ahead of
> my proposal. Spry is expanding the name to www.name.com. Now, if Netscape and
> Microsoft agree to a convention like that I'd be really happy.
The Netscape 2.0 betas do do this. Any given domain "foo", if "foo" cannot
be found, will expand to "www.foo.com". And, as has been in place since
Netscape 1.0, any name "bar" will expand to "http://bar/". At least,
that's been my observation.
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