I've searched and become even more confused. I have a simple link to an external site http:.//1.xxx.xxxx.xxx.net . When I add this to a node, it preappends my own local domain to the entire URL.

Example: http://www.mydomain.com/http://1.xxx.xxxx.xxx.net

Any hints on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

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Found the double-quotes in the href URL (which was cut-n-pasted from another document) to be of special characters. I removed the double-quotes and replaced with double-quotes. Problem resolved.