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Bug#566129: marked as done (lynx www.<this-domain-does-not-exist>.com goes to search page)

Your message dated Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:39:21 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #566129,
regarding lynx www.<this-domain-does-not-exist>.com goes to search page
to be marked as done.

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Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.3-1

If you say
  lynx www.<some-domain-label-with-a-typo-in-it>.com
then lynx shows you a spammy 3rd-party search page, rather than giving
an error.  (I haven't provided an actual example domain because I fear
that naming any actual domain may cause some squatter to register it.)

This is because if it can't resolve the URL it by default tries adding
.com to it.  .com.com exists and contains a wildcard typosquatting search.

The solution is to change the default value of URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES
to the empty string.

While we're at it, URL_DOMAIN_PREFIXES should be empty by default too.

Thanks,
Ian.

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Thank you.
This issue seems to be fixed into 2.8.9dev1-2 version
I close this bug.
Regards

Denis Briand

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