1. Re: GPL'd euphoria/URIs
Gerardo, Irv, Andy, and anyone
A good source of info on DNS is O'Reilly's "DNS and BIND" by Paul Albitz
and Cricket Liu. I have the 3rd edition, the ISBN number of which is
1-56592-512-2. There may be a newer edition available... It provides
quite clear and thorough explanations of DNS, and the screwy way it works!
>> I think getting into RFC specs about URL parsing is not quite the right
> way
>> to go about why www.something.com works and something.com does not. You
>> need to learn more about how DNS works. In short, www.something.com and
>> something.com are two completely different names, just as /usr/bin and
>> /usr/bin/junk are two completely different directories.
>
> Are you sure? Every doc I've ran into tells me that your domain is -in
> your example- "something.com" and nothing else. There's no mention at all
> of any "www".
You know, I think we may be trying to say the same thing then...
Last year I registered a name at NicAr (the Argentine Nic),
> and all I was asked was a) the top level domain (i.e. ".com"), and b) my
> domain name ("bartix"). I can indistinctly reach it typing
> http://www.bartix.com.ar or http://bartix.com.ar.
Right. Sounds right to me...
>
> So, no, Irv. I don't believe anyone would cheat your clients out of their
> registered domain names. Andy Cranston seems to be right on that. However,
> this seems to apply only to "www." My site is hosted on Freeservers, who
> tell me that http://www2.bartix.com.ar is available.
If they're saying this, then they're doing it wrong. Assuming NicAr
controls the com.ar domain, and is responsible for delegating subdomains,
then if someone registers something.com.ar, then ANY url ending in that
should belong to that person. To do otherwise is to violate every rule and
convention of how DNS is implemented.
But are we even talking about the same http://www.bartix.com.ar?:
Welcome to BARTIX, an unofficial index to the public passenger
transportation system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and surrounding districts.
> If you look
> at their source code, the navigation menu links on the left all point to
> http://www.xyz. URLs (none of which work), while the links within the text
> point to http://xyz URLs, which do work. In fact, if you paste the former
> onto your browser's address box and delete the "www." string, they will
> work fine too.
Maybe it was my interpratation of the way you shortened your domains.
http://www.whatever.com may work, http://whatever.com may also work, but
http://whatever will never work. Hence, I don't see the URL http://xyz
working.
--Ted
