Re: BUG in Internet Explorer or Windows XP!

From: Mike Brannigan [MSFT] (mikebran_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:47:29 -0000

"Hass Chapman" <hass.chapman@av.se> wrote in message
news:130eb01c3f6fe$3c4189c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Just found a bug!
>
> If you want to add a domain to "Local Intranet sites" in
> Internet Explorer on a Windows XP client then for
> everything to work the domain name has to be longer than
> 3 characters before the domain name extension. I.E.
>
> www.ab.com won't work
> while
> www.abc.com will!!!!
>
> Is there a patch or hot fix for this???

Hass,

I have just tested this with a UK site www.bt.com
on a Windows XP Professional PC that is fully patched to all available
critical updates.
I have not tested this on an unpatched machine. 

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"Hass Chapman" <hass.chapman@av.se> wrote in message
news:130eb01c3f6fe$3c4189c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Just found a bug!
>
> If you want to add a domain to "Local Intranet sites" in
> Internet Explorer on a Windows XP client then for
> everything to work the domain name has to be longer than
> 3 characters before the domain name extension. I.E.
>
> www.ab.com won't work
> while
> www.abc.com will!!!!
>
> Is there a patch or hot fix for this???
> /hass
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