Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Rick Stevens said: > There is a reason for this, Joel. Most ISPs that deal with home users > use a loop polling mechanism to pick up data from end users and ship it > to the internet. It's not like a normal network connection. They're > optimized for "minimal upload, maximum d

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/11/2011 04:54 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > I appreciate Rick thinking to mention /etc/resolv.conf. I tend to > forget it, especially since Fedora currently does so much (partial) > hand-holding with the network setup widgets. > > (Reindl is going to complain about my monologues again here, I'm afr

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
I appreciate Rick thinking to mention /etc/resolv.conf. I tend to forget it, especially since Fedora currently does so much (partial) hand-holding with the network setup widgets. (Reindl is going to complain about my monologues again here, I'm afraid.) On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:02 PM, François Pa

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 11/08/2011 00:16, Rick Stevens a écrit : > > Have a look at your /etc/resolv.conf and make sure it's not adding a > domain to your lookups via a "search home" or somesuch. Yes it does: domain home search home nameserver 192.168.1.1 OK. Now I un

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-10 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/10/2011 02:18 PM, François Patte wrote: > Le 10/08/2011 04:33, Genes MailLists a écrit : >> On 08/09/2011 07:46 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > >>> >>> So, do you have a suggestion? Or should we wait to see whether >>> François has already solved the problem? >>> > > >> Yeh .. I suggest the follo

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-10 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 10/08/2011 04:33, Genes MailLists a écrit : > On 08/09/2011 07:46 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > >> >> So, do you have a suggestion? Or should we wait to see whether >> François has already solved the problem? >> > > > Yeh .. I suggest the following: >

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-09 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/09/2011 07:46 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > So, do you have a suggestion? Or should we wait to see whether > François has already solved the problem? > Yeh .. I suggest the following: (i) In a terminal window, type host localhost Tell us what it returns. Then do: (ii

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-09 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 09.08.2011 06:48, schrieb Joel Rees: >> So, rather than encouraging proper understanding and use of domain names >> (which is an issue at the heart of the >> apparent need for url auto-correction functions), what is your suggestion? >>

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-09 Thread Robert Marcano
On 08/08/2011 05:12 PM, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 08/08/2011 23:33, Veeti Paananen a écrit : >> On 08/09/2011 12:23 AM, François Patte wrote: >>> Bonsoir, >>> >>> I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in >>> the url fo

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.08.2011 06:48, schrieb Joel Rees: > So, rather than encouraging proper understanding and use of domain names > (which is an issue at the heart of the > apparent need for url auto-correction functions), what is your suggestion? > Joel Rees you realized that the topic is about LOCALHOST?

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.08.2011, Tim wrote: > Try http://localhost:901/ and maybe that'll circumvent Firefox's > unhelpful URL correction. Also, don't just type localhost:901 into the > address gadget. It must be a different problem he encountered. On my F15 systems, both "localhost:631" and "http://localhost:6

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > [...] > what has this monolog to do with his problem? > > typing http://127.0.0.1:901 instead http://localhost:901 > is a well known workaround for idiotic autocorrections If you have something better to offer, offer it. FWIW, FF doesn't aut

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-08 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 23:23 +0200, François Patte wrote: > I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in the > url form: > > http://localhost:901 > > This failed because firefox try to open this url: > www.localhost.com Try http://localhost:901/ and maybe that'll circumven

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.08.2011 00:59, schrieb Joel Rees: > As you see. No mention of the domain name you expect your computer to have > been automatically assigned. Simply > put, the host name you told the installer has nothing to do with the domain > names visible on the web. You have to > get the right to use

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:42 AM, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 08/08/2011 23:33, Veeti Paananen a écrit : >> On 08/09/2011 12:23 AM, François Patte wrote: >>> Bonsoir, >>> >>> I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in >>> t

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-08 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08/08/2011 23:33, Veeti Paananen a écrit : > On 08/09/2011 12:23 AM, François Patte wrote: >> Bonsoir, >> >> I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in >> the url form: >> >> http://localhost:901 >> >> This failed because f

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-08 Thread Veeti Paananen
On 08/09/2011 12:23 AM, François Patte wrote: > Bonsoir, > > I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in > the url form: > > http://localhost:901 > > This failed because firefox try to open this url: www.localhost.com This is just a guess, but perhaps your /etc/hosts fi