Issues with http:// addresses

I'm having issues connecting to sites if I include the http:// in the web address. This is becoming an issue because zypper URI's need the http:// address. When I try updating via zypper I get a bad media attach point. To make sure I was connecting to the internet I tried pinging google what I found was if I ping google.com or www.google.com it works fine. If I ping http://www.google.com I get the following error

ping: unknown host http://www.google.com

Any ideas on how to resolve this?