Mac 0S 9 Browsers always redirect to a .com address ?!?

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fredimac - 25 May 2005 00:41 GMT

Greetings,

I've got a client with a Windows Small Business Sever based LAN.

One of the features is an intranet site delivered via MS Sharepoint.

The sharepoint intranet is in DNS as http://companyweb

Every time I try to get an OS 9 Mac to connect, it automatically
redirects to http://companyweb.com.

Any idea why this would happen?

TCP/IP is getting all its info from DNS on the SBS Server.

Thanks,
Fred

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Grandpa Koca - 25 May 2005 02:20 GMT

> Greetings,
>
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> Thanks,
> Fred

Which browsers? Do they have "Domain guessing" or equivalent turned on?
Its a feature of some browsers to "automatically" append the .com if you
leave it out.

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Clark Martin - 27 May 2005 18:17 GMT

> > Greetings,
> >
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> Its a feature of some browsers to "automatically" append the .com if you
> leave it out.

And you should be able to override this behavior by using
http://companyweb/

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Sander Tekelenburg - 25 May 2005 02:22 GMT

> I've got a client with a Windows Small Business Sever based LAN.
>
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> Every time I try to get an OS 9 Mac to connect, it automatically
> redirects to http://companyweb.com.

What's your reason to relate this to Mac OS?

I suspect what you /mean/ is this happens every time you use a specific
Web browser, that just happens to be running inder Mac OS 9, right? Have
you tried another browser? Or have you tried to configure this browser
to not try to be too smart?

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