[Gllug] HTTP CONNECT

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

Simon Wilcox wrote:

> Ironically we have users that insist that there must be a www.
infront 
> of the URL for our on-line services and can't get their heads around

> the fact that there isn't. We've had some pretty irate people telling

> us that www.xxx.yyy.com doesn't work and they just can't manage to
type 
> xxx.yyy.com!!!

It's a shame really that URLs use the same character to delimit the
server from the domain as is used to delimit the different portions of
the domain. I'm sure joe-average would find it easier to understand the
concept of server - domain - location if URLs looked something like:

http://www@web-den.org.uk/home/

(or using some other character... anything that won't turn up in a
domain name) rather than

http://www.web-den.org.uk/home/

Was any consideration given to that when the format of URLs was being
defined? (quote me a relevant RFC and I'll RTFM ;-)

Wulf



wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk 

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