Re: Sorry
Re: Sorry
- Subject: Re: Sorry
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 00:06:13 +0100
on 2/7/04 11:35 pm, Dave Balderstone at email@hidden wrote:
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On Jul 2, 2004, at 4:01 PM, Martin Orpen wrote:
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> Somebody explain the logic of this position?
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Sure. Say you post a URL like:
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http://www.somedomain.com/directory1/directory2/
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somefilenameindicator.php
Yeah, thanks for proving my point - it's broken in my mail software.
Perhaps *you* could write a script to fix it?
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If I don't recognize the domain, I have the option of starting at
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http://www.somedomain.com
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to see what the site appears to be. Then I can make a decision as to
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whether I proceed or not. I can also do a search for domain details,
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find out where it's located, who the admin and technical contacts are,
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etc.
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Y'know... information. Metadata.
Yeah, it's the stuff that none of us have time to go through when we're
clicking on links in Google trying to find information quickly.
While the rest of us are reading the latest information on the web pages
you're still waiting for the results of a whois on the primary domain...
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A tinyurl tells me jacksh*t about where I'm about to go, so I won't go
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there. "I'll give you some candy if you'll get in the car and go for a
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ride with me, little girl..."
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Why is that so difficult to understand?
I *do* understand it alright - it's a lame *policy*.
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> The ridiculously long URLs generated by many PHP/mySQL solutions are
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> making this sort of
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> redirection a necessity.
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Nonsense. Long URLs are trivial to deal with. Why, I bet you could even
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write a script to do it!
Yeah one in PHP that does the same thing that TinyURL does - haven't you
every stopped to think why these services are popular?
These services are popular with people that don't share *your* unique powers
to detect redirects by knowledge of every URL on the web - and by people who
find long URLs (like the one you managed to post in the second sentence) a
PITA.
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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