On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:21:14 +0100, Jim Nagel wrote: > This is an URL file I use -- a doubleclick on it always worked until > last week to get directly to the Forwarders page, but now Netsurf > tells me it cannot resolve host server6.spellings.net. > > https://<user>:<pwd>@server6.spellings.net:2083/frontend/x3/mail/addfwd > .html > > Netsurf r13033 tells me "Could not resolve host: server6.spellings.net > (Domain name not found)". Yet I can ping that host successfully.
The first digit of the port is getting overwritten by an extraneous colon for some reason. It ends up as (I rationalised the credentials): https://user:p...@server6.spellings.net::083/frontend/x3/mail/addfwd.html ^ Then it tries to resolve "server6.spellings.net:" as the hostname. Chris