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burris
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Re: [General] New ATT.NET home page

I use "my.yahoo.com" (without the http in the url) page to stay on my old original yahoo.
Try it without the http...see what happens for you.
Even when I open a new page and type in the http, only my original yahoo comes up and the http goes away, which is what I want.

No rest for the weary.

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said by burris:

I use "my.yahoo.com" (without the http in the url) page to stay on my old original yahoo.
Try it without the http...see what happens for you.
Even when I open a new page and type in the http, only my original yahoo comes up and the http goes away, which is what I want.

That action is going to be browser specific. My normal browser is SeaMonkey, and with that browser if I don't prefix an http url with "http://" it is automatically inserted (even if I really meant to use the "ftp://" prefix, but forgot it).

Whether your browser automatically inserts it or even displays it in the address field, it is there anyway if you are using a url that needs the http protocol. The "http://", "ftp://", "telnet://" and other prefixes are how the browser knows what protocol to use for the url.

For example, shown below is a screen capture of http://digconsys.com:




And now, here is a screen capture of ftp://digconsys.com:




As you can see, without the proper prefix, the browser would not know which protocol to use (and which actual site to access).