[LA.pm] The odds of finger games

[Erick Calder]

> It's a DOMAIN, not a machine with an IP address

sure, but those are details that matter little.  if I'm making an http
request from a domain, do I really care which host is serving it? and if 99%
of the time the host is always called the same, why should I bother typing
its name?

if you had several hosts within a domain that all serve stuff on http I can
understand you'd need to type the host name but even then a default is nice.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Francis [mailto:darkuncle at darkuncle.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:55 PM
To: Erick Calder
Cc: losangeles-pm at mail.pm.org
Subject: Re: [LA.pm] The odds of finger games


On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:54:51PM -0800, e at arix.com said:
> I had a great time guys.  I really wanted that mousepad!! but I figured
Ask
> could make better use of it than I since I mostly work on a laptop.

Yes, big thanks to everybody that came, to Robert for organizing, and to
Peter for showing up and talking and donating stuff. :)

> btw, the http://pm.org isn't defined... I have to http://www.pm.org

If you think about it a minute, it doesn't really make any sense to type
'http://domain.tld' into your browser anyway. It's a DOMAIN, not a machine
with an IP address. For years people have been adding A records for domains,
but this practice is more due to laziness on the part of Joe Random AOL User
wanting to type domain.com into his browser, than due to any adherence to
the
RFCs.

(btw, nice bit of code there Robrt)
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