Typing specific page urls in Safari?

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Typing specific page urls in Safari?

I apologize if this isn't the right community for this question. This new format for the ASC is pretty opaque. I was told direct this question to one of the device communities.

I sometimes post experimental webpages onto a client's site, so that they can test and evaluate the pages. Since they are not accessible by any link in the website, one must type-in the direct URL of the test page. Of course, this works as expected in Safari in OS X, but on Mobile Safari in iOS, trying to do this merely gives me a Google search for the URL I just typed in.

How does one manually type-in a specific URL in Mobile Safari? For the life of me, I can't figure it out.

Thanks,

Jim

iPad Air Wi-Fi, iOS 7.1.2

Posted on Nov 4, 2014 1:30 PM

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Phil0124

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Nov 4, 2014 1:36 PM in response to Thorzdad

Typing a url is no different on Safari on iOS than any other browser anywhere. You may however need to include the http:// part to make Safari understand its an actual url rather than a search term.

How are you typing these urls? Can you provide an example?

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Thorzdad Author

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Nov 4, 2014 1:51 PM in response to Thorzdad

Well, it seems Phil0124 has the answer for me. Adding http:// does the trick. Adding just www. still got me a Google search. I've gotten so used to not having to add either of those when typing URLs in desktop browsers that it never occurred to me that I needed it in Mobile Safari.

I was initially typing it like this: nameofwebsite.com/test page.html

And that gave me a Google search. Adding just www. didn't help, but adding http:// worked.

I wonder if the reason I was getting a Google search even after adding www. is because it's a brand new page and not linked to by any of the live pages?

Thanks!

Jim

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Phil0124

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Nov 4, 2014 1:53 PM in response to Thorzdad

Glad I could help. Since the URL bar in mobile Safari is used for searches as well as addresses, it may simply have not been interpreting the address as an actual URL. So it defaults to trying to find it through Google.

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FoxFifth

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Nov 4, 2014 1:38 PM in response to Thorzdad

Not sure I understand. It works as expected for me. e.g., on my iPad if I type in www.cnet.com and hit the Go button on the keyboard it takes me to the site.

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