[TriLUG] kinda a sniffer, kinda a snort, kinda weird

[Aaron Joyner]

Alan Porter wrote:

>>http;//ntop.ethereal.com/ntop.html
>>    
>>
>
>When I cut-n-paste this into Firefox on Debian, I
>get directed to Microsoft's web page.
>
>If I change the semi-colon to a colon, I get the
>proper ntop web page.
>
>"kinda weird" is true!
>
>
>Alan
>  
>
Doh, that's because that URL tries to treat http as a search query, and 
ignores everything after the semi colon.  The "I'm feeling lucky" result 
for http is (at the moment) Microsoft's web page.

Sorry for the trojan URL.  :)

Aaron S. Joyner