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I have a local server for development with addresses like "http://dev.local"
However when typing: "//dev.local", Chrome will search on Google instead of going to the specified address.
I need this to work for development purposes, is there a way to prevent Chrome from searching // URLs without disabling search from the address bar for all other inputs?
Is there a way to prevent Chrome from searching // URLs without disabling search from the address bar for all other inputs?
Yes. Add a trailing slash / like you would to any other local address to bypass searching Google, etc. e.g. //dev.local/.
Note that items accessed directly (e.g. //dev.local/image.jpg) should work correctly as-is (i.e. no trailing slash should be required).
/image.jpg/, which could be a directory, a file, or even a path handled by an active backend (e.g: PHP).
URLs consist of multiple parts: (wiki)
scheme:[//[user[:password]@]host[:port]][/path][?query][#fragment]
As such, typing //dev.local doesn't fit into the pattern above, and the omnibox will interpret this as a string to pass to a search engine.
You have three options:
http://dev.local - always the best option://dev.local - Chrome appears to default to httpdev.localIn the third case (with local DNS and Chrome's cooperation) you'll see something like this:
In Chromium, we decided that consistency and speed was best, and given that the range of 'single-word inputs meant as searches' dwarfs the number of 'single-word inputs meant as URLs', we default to displaying web search results while doing a background DNS lookup to figure out if a local host exists - if it does, we display a "Did you mean
http://input/" infobar as show below:
