victor - 8:55 am on Sep 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

Be thankful that the standards committees didn't decide back in the days when 99% of all Internet connections were FTP (or mall or whatever), that a missing prefix should default to FTP (or ditto),

That may've made WWW compulsary for all webservers at all times.

As it is, you have a choice on your machine. If there is no prefix, you can default it to what you want.

Please don't try to take that freedom of choice away from the rest of us.