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Re: More Internet Explorer zone confusion
From: oliver () LINEHAM CO NZ (Oliver Lineham)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:37:28 +1300
At 21:53 5/03/99 -0500, you wrote: Yech.
That means that IE has to rely on the URL. By convention, an URL that does not end with a "dot-something" (.com, .edu, .gov, etc) is assumed to be an internal site. I'm told that this is how all web browsers make the distinction. You have to make specific reconfigurations to allow the dotless URLs to resolve externally. Thanks,
This is insane - and most probably not how it distinguishes domains at all. Such a system implies that the "dot-something"s are hard-coded into the browser! This would be a similar flaw to the original cookie specification's one about domains that I announced last year. Consider: - Country domains. They're not dot-somethings, but under this regime anything from somewhere like New Zealand (.nz) would be a "Local Intranet Site". - New TLDs. Internic goes and adds a .web or .store or something that didn't exist when the browser was released. I'm sure all the e-commerce sites on .store would love their servers being considered "Local Intranet Sites"! If this is how the zones are implemented, then its insane. If not, then IE's claim of being able to distinguish intranet sites from internet ones is an outright lie and the "feature" should be removed. Oliver --------------------------------------------------- Internet Services / Webdesign / Strategic Planning PO Box 30-481, Lower Hutt, NZ oliver () lineham co nz Phone +64 4 566-0627 Facsimile +64 4 570-1900
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