Re: AW: [squid-users] Re: URL's that begins with a minus

Hi,

        (again) please don't top post.

> On 07 Feb 2006, at 03:26 PST, <Werner.Rost@zf.com> <Werner.Rost@zf.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What does
>>
>> nslookup http://-kol.deviantart.com/
>>
>> tell you?
>>
>> Mit freundlichem Gruß/Yours sincerely
>> Werner Rost
>> GMT-FIR - Netzwerk
>>
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>> werner.rost@zf.com
>>
>>
>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: WiLLiE [mailto:dazwillie@gmail.com]
>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 12:23
>>>> An: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>>>> Betreff: [squid-users] Re: URL's that begins with a minus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Come on, some of you must know the solution to this one.
>>>>
>>>> WiLLiE skrev:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been trying to goto this url: http://-kol.deviantart.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> but squid does not let me, I get this error: (in Firefox)
>>>>> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>>>>>
>>>>> While trying to retrieve the URL: http://-kol.deviantart.com/

Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
> The symbol that you see in front of "kol.deviantart.com" is not a minus
> sign. It is a tilde. It is not part of the host name. The tilde is
> used on the deviantART web pages as a device to indicate that the
> following string is a link to a web site. It may, also, be used to
> hinder "bots" from trolling the site.

In this case it isn't. I've never used that site before but there
really is a '-kol.deviantart.com'! I only know because Opera gets
there, it appears to resolve to 69.28.181.43 (I had to use a packet
capture to get that as none of the DNS tools will play ball with it -
quite rightly so).

As I said before - tell the site owner to correct it, plain and simple
it is wrong.

HTH,

                                Neil.

-- 
Neil Hillard                    hillardn@whl.co.uk
Westland Helicopters Ltd.       http://www.whl.co.uk/
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