Browsers adding www. and .com to server address automatically

Question

In my company, we access some databases through a local server, through firefox/chrome/safari, by using a URL of the format:

http://server_name:port/path

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Answer 1

If you just type server_name into the search/url bar the browsers try to be helpful and guess what the URL should be or switch to a search. However if you click on a HTML link, enter the full URL (http://server_name), or use a bookmark the browsers should respect what was entered.