Re:Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
by scalableUnicon on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:01PM
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Thanks!:) What was even more confusing, but I didn't mention in the article, was that visiting domain.name in my browser did take me to a similar website. That was because firefox will try www.<doman.tld> when <domain.tld> fails, so it was actually www.domain.name I was getting instead of domain.name. This behavior can be turned off by setting `browser.fixup.alternate.enabled` to false.
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Re:Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
by lightswitch05 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @09:14AM
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I had no idea about that config, but I've seen the behavior before. That behavior is even more interesting considering that Firefox will hide the 'www' subdomain in the URL[1]. So not only will it silently add the www, but it also won't show it in the URL! SMH!
1: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/28/firefox-75-address-bar-res...