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Re: Growth
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:59:42 GMT
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Christopher Lindsey wrote:
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> Todd Lehman wrote:
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> > In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Bannister writes:
> > > it's trying to open the url http://news.lugnet.com/news.raw.cgi?lugnet.general
> > > on port 8265, probably. isn't that part of the standard?
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> > No -- the port goes immediately after the domain or machine name, not at the
> > end of the URL.
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> Although I've come across many client applications that don't get it
> right; xmms is the first one that comes to mind, as it assumes anything
> after a colon in the URL is a port number, no matter where it shows
> up.
wow, so a properly formed http://x.y.z:1234/a/b/c won't work? That's
pretty bad.
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| (...) I probably didn't explain it right... The example that you give above works, but something like (URL) because it thinks that song.mp3 is the port number. Other failures include (URL) it would try to connect on port 100. As Todd pointed out, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Although I've come across many client applications that don't get it right; xmms is the first one that comes to mind, as it assumes anything after a colon in the URL is a port number, no matter where it shows up. Chris (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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