URL parsing

[Jason mclaughlin]

Hi,

I'm developing a proxy server (www.safesquid.com) which has a feature
that lets you prefix URL hostnames with a command to temporarily
change proxy settings (like bypass filtering features, show cached
file info, etc.) like http://bypass..www.somesite.com/index.html.

Since KDE 3.3, it seems konqueror no longer accepts this as a valid
URL... typing http://bypass..www.somesite.com/index.html in konqueror
causes it to load http:/index.html

Is there any reason for this change?