Re: [LUG] Url that doesn't work in linux...

[John Daragon <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anton Channing wrote:
> It may be in an invalid url that somehow gets supported
> by IE, but the following artists website:
>
> http://what-.deviantart.com/
>
> only appears to load in IE.  No browser I've tried
> in Linux wants anything to do with it. :(
>
> Anyone got any clue as to whats causing this?

"what-" isn't a valid RFC1034 host name. My guess is that the DNS server 
used by the Linux box is being picky and the one used by the box with IE 
on it isn't. I've come across this before with hosnames using underscores...

jd
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