Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:44:48 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.c Message-ID: <XFMail.001215124448.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKIEIIMHAA.davids@webmaster.com>
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On 14-Dec-00 David Schwartz wrote: > > If you want to be 100% sure what it's doing, specify the scheme > > explicitly. > > IMO, either there should be a default scheme or the scheme should be > required to be specified. But to attempt to divine the scheme based upon the > host _name_ makes no sense. Why not? Things are named by the service they provide (usually) > If you're buying a gift for a woman and you don't know what to buy, should > you prefer to buy her chocolates because her name is Candy? Should you give > her cash if her name is Penny? Haha very funny. > The only people who expect this type of behavior are people who don't > understand that the 'www' in 'www.domain.com' is simply the hostname. Trying > to make it mean something other than that just adds to this confusion. For > example, I have a web server called 'youknow.youwant.to', and about half the > time I give people URLs on that server, they wind up putting in > 'www.youknow.youwant.to' for no reason other than that because it's a web > page, they felt the server name had to have a 'www' in front of it. <shrugs> People are like that. > How many servers with 'ftp' in their name provide an http service as well? Yeah, but generally that mahcine has a www CNAME as well.. At least the machines I run do.. To me it just makes it easier.. It does what is expected (by a large majority of people - IMHO) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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