> IE "helps" you. It assumes any address given is an Hypertext Transport > Protocol system and will insert the prefix for you. <pedant> its actually HyperText Transfer Protocol </pedant> > most people assume www.domain indeed they do - when we set up subdomains we also have to set-up the sub-domain with www as well. AAAAAAAAA e.g. http://www.example.org.nz has http://subdomain.example.org.nz and we also have to set up http://www.subdomain.example.org.nz for those people cheers Dr Stuart Young, +64 (0)9-815 4321 Ex 8656 <syoung at unitec.ac.nz> Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Technology, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand http://hyperdisc.unitec.ac.nz/staff/syoung.htm I would provide a URL for my official staffpage, but its too long and complex