Firefox/4.0.1pre SeaMonkey/2.1pre   
   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   tholen@antispam.ham wrote:   
   > "Trevor Hemsley"  writes:   
   >   
   >>> Why else might one work and not the   
   >>> other?   
   >   
   >> The option in Seamonkey (which is probably the same in firefox) is "Add   
   www. AND   
   >> ..com" (emphasis mine) if a web site is not found. Your example was probably   
   >> looking for www.irs.gov.com   
   >   
   > Wouldn't that trigger the 404 Not Found result?   
   >   
   > In the case of irs.gov, Firefox did try to connect to something,   
   > but that something took too long to respond.  The "Connecting"   
   > icon was green, which I suspect means that it found a site.   
   >   
      
   There does seem to be a site, irs.gov that doesn't respond and Firefox    
   probably found it and waited for a response.   
   I notice that www.irs.gov actually resolves to akamai.net, which is a    
   large caching/mirroring site used by many sites that are high in traffic.   
   Dave   
      
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