how to get a host with an @ sign!?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Sep 24 02:32:18 UTC 2002


Danny Mayer wrote:

> At 07:21 PM 9/20/02, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
> >Christof Drescher wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > some providers currently offer the possibility to use @-DOmains, e.g.
> > > instead of an ordinary www.mycompany.org or a host like
> > > office.mycompany.org you see
> > >
> > > jim at mycompany.org and office at mycompany.org
> > >
> > > which can be used as a browser url like http://jim@mycompany.org.
> > >
> > > I need to do that myself as well, but don't know how to achieve this.
> >
> >Your browser isn't interpreting the @ or anything to the left of it as
> >part of the hostname.
>
> That is incorrect.  The host name here is mycompany.org. The browser
> will strip anything to the left of the @ sign in order to figure out where
> to send the request unless it's using an HTTP proxy server, in which
> case it interprets nothing and sends the URL as is to the Proxy Server.

What's "incorrect", Danny? Your explanation and mine seem to be essentially
the same.

> >  Look in the HTTP specs to see how "jim" is being
> >interpreted in the above URL; if it means anything special, then only
> >the web server is differentiating it. This is not a DNS issue.
>
> The HTTP specs don't deal with URL's, only with the HTTP protocol
> which is the first 4 characters of this URL.

HTTP specs, web specs, whatever. This is a BIND/DNS list, I don't have to be
anal-retentively precise about what non-DNS specs I refer to... :-)


- Kevin




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