Re: [idn] Web navigation for IDN resolving

["Bruce Thomson" <bthomson@fm-net.ne.jp>]

> In MS IE 5.0 or later,
> this is true only for these two kinds of url inputs: try dns lookup first
>
>   1)   with  explicit http: prefix
>
>        http://www.<ML>.com
>        http://<ML>.com
>
>   2)   without http: prefix
>
>        www.<ML>.com
>
>   In these two cases, IEs try dns lookup for IDN hostname regardless of whether it is in utf8 or
legacy encoding.
>
> IE does *not* try dns lookup for this third kind of url input without http: prefix
>

With IE 6, I find that it's doing the DNS lookup in all three cases.

Bruce