--i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:02:57PM -0700, Brett C. wrote: > Skip Montanaro wrote: > > >> .. _Python 2.2.3: http://www.python.org./2.2.3/ > > > > Robin> You've got a typo in that URL: an extra trailing dot after the > > Robin> ".org". > > > >Typo perhaps, but it is still a valid name (a trailing dot makes the name > >absolute, much the same way that a leading / makes a Unix path name > >absolute). If your web browser or email client doesn't grok that (Apple= 's > >Safari handled it just fine), I'd report it as a bug. ;-) > > >=20 > No typo, but Skip hit it right on the head in his explanation; the dot=20 > makes the address absolute and thus skips your search domains trying to= =20 > find a match. Think of the trailing dot as specifying to go to the=20 > Net's root servers immediately instead of trying to figure out what you= =20 > mean. The drawback of having me do the summaries; just finished reading= =20 > 'UNIX Network Programming' so I am still in the "let's try to justify=20 > reading over 760 pages in a little over a week" mode. =3D) >=20 > And yes, if your browser can't handle that address it's broken. =3D) Ah, I see. My browser handled it just fine, but I assumed it was a typo because I didn't know that was valid usage and, well, the . key is right next to the / key... :-) I'd still consider changing it to the more-commonly-used form without a trailing dot, though, simply to avoid confusing people on c.l.py. Or you could leave it in, figuring that anyone who reads the python-dev summaries is smart enough to understand what's going on. Your call. --=20 Robin Munn <rmunn@pobox.com> http://www.rmunn.com/ PGP key ID: 0x6AFB6838 50FF 2478 CFFB 081A 8338 54F7 845D ACFD 6AFB 6838 --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5Q5+hF2s/Wr7aDgRAsckAJ9J6Ww1tUmaBgLTpKycg9V11ufDSQCgkmjN unvnPBfXPM7Un3u/tDs8y8E= =3rbC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH--
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