[Gllug] HTTP CONNECT

[Tethys]

"Wulf Forrester-Barker" writes:

>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/

But DNS doesn't distinguish a server from a domain. "www" is effectively
a subdomian of "web-den.org.uk", which happens to resolve to a specific
host (or maybe a farm of them -- who knows). So you can't change the "."
to an "@" without some fairly major changes to DNS...

Tet

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