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netspert
Mar 20, 2021Aspirant
Connect to Admin UI
I used to have no trouble connecting to the router UI (on wired connmection) by putting 192.168.0.1 into my browser's search line (on Chrome), but recently that just got me redirected to a Netgear We...
antinode
Mar 21, 2021Guru
> [...] putting 192.168.0.1 into my browser's search line [...]
That's a "search line" and/or a URL box. How should your browser
know whether you want to do a Web search for:
192.168.0.1
or you want to communicate with a web server at:
192.168.0.1
???
In some cases, like this one, the entry is ambiguous; it could be
interpreted as a search term or as a URL (an _incomplete_ URL).
I'd expect a more complete URL to have a better chance of being
interpreted as a URL. For example:
http://192.168.0.1
http://192.168.0.1/
192.168.0.1/
When this new Inter-Web thing was new, and web browsers were lame,
the user was expected to supply a recognizably complete URL. And, if
you wanted to use a search engine, you went explicitly to the
search-engine web site, like, say, "http://google.com", and put your
search terms into a form there.
Now that everything has been "improved", you can put whatever you
want into the URL box (which you might even think of as a "search
line"), and the browser will decide whether you have provided a URL or
search terms, and act accordingly. This is much more convenient, unless
you provide ambiguous stuff, and the browser's decision is not what you
expected.