The company has a blog:
www.fictionframes.com
If I type fictionframes.com into Mozilla address bar the site comes
up.
If I type fictionframes.com into IE address bar the site will not come
up.
If I type
www.fictionframes into IE address bar the site will come up.
I deleted temps, cookies in IE and cannot get IE to launch:
fictionframes.com
Is there a method to change this function?
The users are in the habit of typing in a *.com without suppling the
http://www up front.
This is a browser function.
If I type, 'fictionframes.com' into the Opera 9.27 address bar, I get:
| Error!
| Could not locate remote server
|
| You tried to access the address
http://fictionframes.com/, which is
| currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is
| correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
If I type, 'fictionframes.com' into the SeaMonkey 1.1.9 address bar, I get:
| Address Not Found
|
| fictionframes.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again.
If I type, 'fictionframes.com' into the MS Internet Explorer 7 address bar,
I get:
| The page cannot be displayed
| The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might
| be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser
| settings.
These are all rational, and proper responses. If I try 'nslookup' from a
command prompt, I get:
| *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.102.1: Non-existent domain
| *** Default servers are not available
| Server: UnKnown
| Address: 192.168.102.1
|
| Name: fictionframes.com
And Sam Spade tells me:
| 04/24/08 12:46:45 dns fictionframes.com
| No data of requested type
| (Host doesn't exist - try Dig for MX record)
Some browsers try to be helpful, often in an unhelpful way...
If I type, 'fictionframes.com' into the MS Internet Explorer 6 address bar,
I get redirected to the Google search page.
BTW, Mozilla Firefox can be configured to behave properly, and I have done
so. If I type, 'fictionframes.com' into the Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 address
bar, I get a pop up window with this message:
Alert
Firefox can't find the server at fictionframes.com.
Please do not ask MSFT to "fix" something which is not broken. If you want
users to go to your web page, just fix up an 'AAAA', or 'CNAME' DNS record
which points 'fictionframes.com' to the appropriate IP address. Do that and
any browser will gladly take your user to your web page.
--
Norman
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~now in the air the spring is coming.
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