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Web Browsers add .au to URL
I'm finding with some sites e.g. www.google.com & www.avg.com
both IE & FF4 are adding ".au" to the end of the URL (I am located in Australia). How do I stop this happening? Can anyone help. Cheers Gary |
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Web Browsers add .au to URL
Sun, 01 May 2011 23:42:04 +0930, /Gary Dingle/:
I'm finding with some sites e.g. www.google.com & www.avg.com both IE & FF4 are adding ".au" to the end of the URL (I am located in Australia). How do I stop this happening? Can anyone help. Don't know about AVG.com but for Google make sure you allow saving its cookies between sessions, then on the bottom-right of the main search page you should see a link like "Go to Google.com" http://www.google.com/ncr - just follow that. -- Stanimir |
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Web Browsers add .au to URL
Sun, 01 May 2011 17:21:03 +0300, /Stanimir Stamenkov/:
Sun, 01 May 2011 23:42:04 +0930, /Gary Dingle/: I'm finding with some sites e.g. www.google.com & www.avg.com both IE & FF4 are adding ".au" to the end of the URL (I am located in Australia). How do I stop this happening? Can anyone help. Don't know about AVG.com but for Google make sure you allow saving its cookies between sessions, then on the bottom-right of the main search page you should see a link like "Go to Google.com" http://www.google.com/ncr - just follow that. NCR apparently stands for "No Country Redirect". Here's more Google info: http://www.google.com/support/websea....py?answer=873 -- Stanimir |
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Web Browsers add .au to URL
On Sun, 01 May 2011 17:30:37 +0300, Stanimir Stamenkov
wrote: Sun, 01 May 2011 17:21:03 +0300, /Stanimir Stamenkov/: Sun, 01 May 2011 23:42:04 +0930, /Gary Dingle/: I'm finding with some sites e.g. www.google.com & www.avg.com both IE & FF4 are adding ".au" to the end of the URL (I am located in Australia). How do I stop this happening? Can anyone help. Don't know about AVG.com but for Google make sure you allow saving its cookies between sessions, then on the bottom-right of the main search page you should see a link like "Go to Google.com" http://www.google.com/ncr - just follow that. NCR apparently stands for "No Country Redirect". Here's more Google info: http://www.google.com/support/websea....py?answer=873 Thanks. I was thinking it was a setting on my PC, but it appears it's controlled by the web-site/s themselves. Thanks again |
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Web Browsers add .au to URL
On Sun, 01 May 2011 23:42:04 +0930, Gary Dingle wrote:
I'm finding with some sites e.g. www.google.com & www.avg.com both IE & FF4 are adding ".au" to the end of the URL (I am located in Australia). How do I stop this happening? Can anyone help. Your subject line is wrong. It's not the browsers doing it; the sites themselves are redirecting you to their Australian versions. Why they do that I couldn't say, but it's nothing you can control with your browser. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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Web Browsers add .au to URL
Gary Dingle wrote:
I'm finding with some sites e.g. www.google.com & www.avg.com both IE & FF4 are adding ".au" to the end of the URL (I am located in Australia). How do I stop this happening? Can anyone help. You could always move to the U.S. :-) -- Crash What happens online, stays online. |
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Web Browsers add .au to URL
Sun, 1 May 2011 11:39:40 -0400, /Stan Brown/:
On Sun, 01 May 2011 23:42:04 +0930, Gary Dingle wrote: I'm finding with some sites e.g. www.google.com& www.avg.com both IE& FF4 are adding ".au" to the end of the URL (I am located in Australia). How do I stop this happening? Can anyone help. Your subject line is wrong. It's not the browsers doing it; the sites themselves are redirecting you to their Australian versions. Why they do that I couldn't say, but it's nothing you can control with your browser. If you've read the last message of Gary Dingle to this thread you would know he "was thinking it was a setting on his PC, but it appears it's controlled by the web-site/s themselves". Internationalized and localized content is also served to clients depending on their browser settings. All of IE, Firefox, Opera and Chrome allow one to specify number of language/country entries in order of preference, which get sent to the sites with every request. -- Stanimir |
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Web Browsers add .au to URL
Gary Dingle wrote:
I'm finding with some sites e.g. www.google.com & www.avg.com both IE & FF4 are adding ".au" to the end of the URL (I am located in Australia). Since any host can see the IP address of the other host connecting to it, and because there are lists of which IP addresses are in which country or region, a site can redirect you to a page based on your IP address. You try to connect to google.com but they redirect you to their google.co.au site because your IP address (that you used to connect to them) shows you're in Australia. Besides redirecting you to a different host in their worldwide load-balanced network, they could also refuse to let you see some content (I think the BBC site is like this in that some content isn't accessible if your IP address shows you aren't in the UK region). How do I stop this happening? Can anyone help. You use a proxy host that has an IP address in the country that you want to pretend to the site of where you are. |
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Web Browsers add .au to URL
Have you tried going to google.com by clicking on the links given just below the search box? I am in the UK and I always get google.com because I have set google.com as my home page. In seamonkey browser, I once clicked on go to google.com and now it goes to google.com every time I want to search. Gary Dingle wrote: I'm finding with some sites e.g. www.google.com & www.avg.com both IE & FF4 are adding ".au" to the end of the URL (I am located in Australia). How do I stop this happening? Can anyone help. Cheers Gary |
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