Microsoft KB Archive/166661

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

Article ID: 166661

Article Last Modified on 5/2/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q166661



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.

