[LA.pm] The odds of finger games

[Scott Francis]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:20:27PM -0800, ask at develooper.com said:
[snip]
> > > 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.
> 
> That's just an artifact of your DNS configuration.

True ... but one should not EXPECT domain.tld to produce www.domain.tld just
because one happens to hit it with an HTTP client. (Any more than I expect
openbsd.org to redirect to ftp.openbsd.org just because I happen to make an
FTP request ...)
-- 
Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net
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