Hi Paul, I think some sort of explicit URL protocol would be nice for short-circuiting DNS without having to add entries to your hosts file and restart; somethi

Hi Paul, I think some sort of explicit URL protocol would be nice for short-circuiting DNS without having to add entries to your hosts file and restart; something like: httpe://1.2.3.4@www.domain.com/index.html would connect to 1.2.3.4 and ask for domain.com, without querying DNS either locally or otherwise. I'd find it useful.