Re: heuristic for server names

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Chris Cappuccio wrote:

> Netscape's DNS routines will look up 'www.host.com' if you just type
> in 'host' and there is no 'host' to be found.
>
> However, if you tell Netscape to use a proxy server, it will let the
> proxy server do DNS instead

I see. My problem with getting Squid (or actually any program) to do this
sort of thing is localisation. I might want "microsoft" to give me
"www.microsoft.com.au", and someone in Japan might want
"www.microsoft.com.jp". Perhaps a better solution would be a background
program to run on the client machine that intercepts certain web requests
and rewrites them, in a fashion similar to Getright or Alexa? This might
make localisation (i.e. non-US-centricism) easier. Or even a plug-in for
browsers?

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