From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 9 20:37:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA10207 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 20:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.8.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA10202 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 20:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA00416; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 21:36:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3234E253.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 21:36:52 -0600 From: Sean Kelly Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mattias Pantzare CC: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Typing URLs (was Re: FTP Mirror HOW-TO) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mattias testified: > Hm, maybe a computer name in the URLs? :-) They won't work like that... > [without a hostname] Actually, some do, at least with Netscrape. Try these URLs: microsoft ibm mci That's right: you don't need http://, www., or even .com/. Netscrape assumes all that. Heck, even freebsd works to get to the FreeBSD home page (since www.freebsd.{com,org}) are the same host. A few more curiosities ... freebsd.com is FreeBSD, Inc (FREEBSD2-DOM) 246 Park St. Clyde, CA 94520 whereas freebsd.org is The FreeBSD Project (FREEBSD-DOM) 839 S.E. 209th Ave. Gresham, OR 97030-2235 Not that it really matters these days. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Boulder Colorado USA