Originally Posted by
mgcsinc
Unless I'm out of my mind, I've seen next-available-flight-in-the-morning legal layovers without a stopover a million times. I thought that it was axiomatic that, according to each airline's whim, many first-available-flight itins were designated as legal layovers despite being >4 hours.
You're not out of your mind, and you most definitely have seen it, as have I.
The website is pricing the long connection in your favor. Which is why if you can make the website display it, you can have it, but an agent can't do it without overriding it.