IE8 gopher bug

Friday, August 29, 2008

IE8 has a wonderful bug. If you type in gopher.com into the address bar IE will take you to gopher://gopher.com. Every other browser takes you to http://gopher.com but Microsoft still values the gopher protocol and defaults to that protocol for any URL typed into the address bar that starts with gopher.

Before:


After:


Update:
It looks like this will work for any protocol (ftp, gopher, etc).

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