INFO: Link View Does Not Prepend FTP:// to URLs

Last reviewed: December 9, 1997
Article ID: Q166661

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 1.0

SUMMARY

When you invoke "View Links on WWW" from the Tools menu and type in a URL without an explicit scheme or protocol, Link View assumes that the URL should be accessed via HTTP://. For example, if you type in ftp.upenn.edu, Link View assumes that you want to View Links on http://ftp.upenn.edu, instead of ftp://ftp.upenn.edu.

MORE INFORMATION

This is by design. The "View Links on WWW" does not have all the richness of the Internet Explorer address field in its ability to take incomplete URLs and convert them into fully qualified URLs.

REFERENCES

For the latest Knowledge Base articles and other support information on Visual InterDev and Active Server Pages, see the following page on the Microsoft Technical Support site:

   http://support.microsoft.com/support/vinterdev/

Keywords          : VIDataTools kbusage
Version           : 1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbinfo

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Last reviewed: December 9, 1997
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