• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>,"Miles Sabin" <miles@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: URIs harmful (was RE: Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:11:11 -0700
• Thread-index: AcIxiv921gahRmRRQLqUQddo/hm3+wAYpEHg
• Thread-topic: URIs harmful (was RE: Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] 
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:20 AM
> To: 'Miles Sabin'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  URIs harmful (was RE:  
> Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)
> 
> 
> In Internet Explorer, it returns among other things,
> 
> 11004 - Host not found
> 
> Yes.  I consider that a resolution.  It made the 
> attempt and found a document to return.
> 

No it didn't:

$ wget http://this.host.does.not.exist/
--19:06:00--  http://this.host.does.not.exist/
           => `index.html'
Resolving this.host.does.not.exist... failed: Host not found.

$ telnet http://this.host.does.not.exist/ 80
http://this.host.does.not.exist/: No address associated with name

Getting an error message in Internet Explorer does not count as
retrieving a document to me not does it to WGET, TELNET or any other
mechanism I'd use to dereference that URL. 


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