\url{} does not properly work in \item when URL ends with a “/”

Question

I want to have a list of websites in a itemize-environment, but I need to use \usepackage{url} instead of \usepackage{hyperref}, because hyperref creates some problems in the document (see Multiple Footnotes in the same caption/figure/table and using hyperref). Some of them end with a "/" but the link gets substituted with "/•" then the URL does not work any more.

%LaTeX=>PDF
\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{tablefootnote} % allows to use several \tablefootnote in table&tabular
\usepackage{url}           % enables \url

\begin{document}  

\begin{itemize}
\item \url{http://www.washingtonpost.com/}
\item \url{http://www.newyorktimes.com/}
\item \url{http://www.lemonde.fr/}
\item \url{http://www.guardian.co.uk/}
\item \url{http://www.spiegel.de/}
\item \url{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/}
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

Click on the links in the PDF and you will see the links are not work properly.

Answer 1

As @JosephWright correctly said the url package does not create links, only some PDF-Viewers. It was a problem of Sumatra-PDF-Viewer. Other PDF Viewers linked it correctly (Foxit Reader, Nitro Reader, PDF-XChange Editor), there are also PDF-Viewer which doesn't link \url{} using \usepackage{url} at all.