Converting relative links to fully qualified links

[Micktee]

My company recently acquired another company, and so we
have a mixed intranet environment. Some web sites from
the acquired company's portion of the intranet use URLs
that are relative to their DNS server, and so are not
resolvable by my DNS server. I need to change the URL to
a fully qualified domain name before I can access the site.

Essentially the hot link url's are structured
as "http://server:port/path", but in order for me to
access the page, my DNS server needs to
see "http://server.oldcompany.com:port/path".

Currently, I have to copy the shortcut, paste it into my
URL pane, and add ".oldcompany.com" to every address
instead of just clicking to navigate those sites.

Is there any way to cause IE to recognize certain URL
patterns and insert ".oldcompany.com" before launching the
DNS query so that I could navigate via point & click.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Some web sites from

the acquired company's portion of the intranet use URLs
that are relative to their DNS server, and so are not
resolvable by my DNS server. I need to change the URL to
a fully qualified domain name before I can access the site.

Have you tried using your HOSTS file to do this instead?

E.g. assuming that server does not need to resolve on your DNS
just add it as an alias for whatever IP address you have assigned
server.oldcompany.com

Currently, I have to copy the shortcut, paste it into my
URL pane, and add ".oldcompany.com" to every address
instead of just clicking to navigate those sites.

As long as you are employing your Address bar in your solution
don't overlook that if you are using AutoComplete for Web Addresses
that you only have to use the copy and paste trick once per site.
After that you would find it listed in the AutoSuggest dropdown list.
To make navigation to it even faster you could make it a Favorite.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle