Hi
This is a strange one. Sometimes I will copy a hyperlink in an email to the clipboard and then paste it into the address bar of the browser. This usually works fine.
Today, I received an email from Dell with a link to updated firmware for a tape drive. I copied the link and pasted it into my browser (Internet Explorer 7), and the link was missing the domain name. When I hovered the mouse pointer over the link, the domain name is definitely there.
This is what Pegasus Mail displays when the link is displayed in the status bar:

But this is what is pasted:
http:///support/downloads/format.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R216654&ref=sdc_dlsource
which fails.
Not really a problem as I was able to solve it by adding the domain name. Does anyone know what happened here?
<P>Hi</P>
<P>This is a strange one. Sometimes I will copy a hyperlink in an email to the clipboard and then paste it into&nbsp;the address bar of the browser. This usually works fine.</P>
<P>Today, I received an email from Dell with a link to updated firmware for a tape drive. I copied the link and pasted it into my browser (Internet Explorer 7), and the link was missing the domain name. When I hovered the mouse pointer over the link, the domain name is definitely there.</P>
<P>This is what Pegasus Mail displays when the link is displayed in the status bar:</P>
<P>[URL=http://img2.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pegasusdelllink1.jpg][IMG]http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/1774/pegasusdelllink1.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL]</P>
<P>But this is what is pasted:</P>
<P>http:///support/downloads/format.aspx?c=uk&amp;l=en&amp;s=gen&amp;releaseid=R216654&amp;ref=sdc_dlsource</P>
<P>which fails.</P>
<P>Not really a problem as I was able to solve it by adding the domain name. Does anyone know what happened here?</P>