invalid path error

[Guest]

Somehow, one of my users managed to remove the
defaulted "http:/" from IE 6. Now when attempting to open
web pages prefixed by www. we get the error message
invalid path, or pathname. However- if hitting a site
where the prefix is not needed,it works. Ive seen this
before,but forgot the fix.Any help will be greatly
appreciated.Thanks in advance.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Somehow, one of my users managed to remove the
defaulted "http:/" from IE 6. Now when attempting to open
web pages prefixed by www. we get the error message
invalid path, or pathname. However- if hitting a site
where the prefix is not needed,it works. Ive seen this
before,but forgot the fix.Any help will be greatly
appreciated.Thanks in advance.

Check the below Registry entries vs. yours:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\DefaultPrefix]
Default="http://"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes]
"ftp"="ftp://"
"gopher"="gopher://"
"home"="http://"
"mosaic"="http://"
"www"="http://"

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[Alan Edwards]

Try this:

IE will not connect to a web page without manually typing http://

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers_8.htm#extension

....Alan