Microsoft Edge not able to open website starting with url:

Question

_{Tuesday, May 23, 2017 11:54 AM}

One of our tools produces website using the following format:

url:http://www.google.com

This worked fine with all browser on Windows7.

Since we move to Windows10 we cannot open this type of url anymore with:

• EDGE
• Firefox (guess it gets its settings from EDGE)
• Chrome (guess it gets its settings from EDGE)

But it is still working with IE11 on Windows10.

Additionally on Windows 7 we could use this URL in the file explorer, the default browser was opened and directed us to "http://www.google.com"

Same doesn't work in Windows10.

Would you might have any idea how to solve this ? It seems its just missing some protocol definition for "url:" in the registry.

Cheers

Marcus

All replies (4)

_{Wednesday, May 24, 2017 3:00 AM}

Hi,

This is normal.

Since Internet Explorer address bar would recognize that's a web address. Microsoft Edge's search box would recognize it as the search content instead of web address.

If you input it into the Internet Explorer search box not address bar, it will get the same result as Microsoft Edge.

Thus, if you need use this format web address, please use the Internet Explorer for instead.

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_{Wednesday, May 24, 2017 11:12 AM}

Hi,

thanks for your quick response and good point with the search bar. But that is not related.

The difference between Windows7 and Windows10 I'm trying to solve is:

Windows 7 Pro with IE11 as default browser:

• type "url:http://www.google.com" in the file explorer location field and hit enter
  -> result is that "www.google.com" is opened in IE11

Windows 10 Pro with IE11 as default browser:

• type "url:http://www.google.com" in the file explorer location field and hit enter
  -> result is warning message that the file "url:http://www.google.com" is not found

Our tool behave the same then its forwarding a URL like this to the browser.

_{Thursday, May 25, 2017 10:04 AM}

Hi,

Yes, that's the modification in the Windows 10.

I capture the activities when search url:http://www.google.com in the Windows 10 and Windows 7 File Explorer using the process monitor.

I found that Windows 10 didn't invoke the Internet Exploere program. However, Windows 7 would do that as type http://www.google.com in the Windows 10.

Here i suggest you submit this feedback via the built-in Feedback app.

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_{Thursday, May 25, 2017 3:48 PM}

One of our tools produces website using the following format:

url:http://www.google.com

But that's not a valid URL... so rather than expect Windows 10 to abide to something that's non-standard, I'd recommend that you fix the tool that generates non-valid URLs

http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/uri-spec.html