strange url

Codemonger · Post by **Codemonger** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:41 pm

I typed this in by accident

http://www.purebasic.com.org

wierd ?

prefuct · Post by **prefuct** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:46 pm

It does exactly what should be expected, if you know how domain name organization works...

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:48 pm

The source html is the same as www.com.org.

So in other words... www.anythingyouwant.com.org is the same as if you just typed www.com.org.

Not sure....

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:52 pm

It does exactly what should be expected, if you know how domain name organization works...

Are you suggesting 'www.purebasic' is a valid name on 'com.org'? I don't think so. It more likely that all unknown page requests on that server routes to this page.

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:53 pm

it seams that everything that has *.org.com redirects you to org.com
yes werid

Codemonger · Post by **Codemonger** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:54 pm

It does exactly what should be expected, if you know how domain name organization works...

Ok com is a sub domain of org and purebasic is a sub domain of com .. alright just wondering why purebasic is a subdomain, I gues they are redirecting anything you type in using the top level domain name

Post by **Dare2** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:54 pm

I guess that once the server has to deal with a request like that the decision becomes where to redirect. To a 404 page or to somewhere else.

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:01 am

It is a wildcard DNS entry and their web server set to respond to any hostname.. Nothing unusual.

prefuct · Post by **prefuct** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:13 am

Beach wrote:It more likely that all unknown page requests on that server routes to this page.

That was my point exactly

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:39 am

It simple if you think that domains are read from right to left.

Start with .org
Then .com

That is all that is needed to identify the server: http://com.org is all you need.

Everything else is passed to the server for resolution.

This is how http://forums.purebasic.com works, redirecting you to http://jconserv.net/purebasic.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 2:08 pm

prefuct wrote:That was my point exactly

Oh, ok. Then perhaps next time you can better illustrate your point.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 10:22 am

yeah...

illustrate! a doodle, a squidle, a dribble or a sketch
for all of us poor users, that pages have to fetch
now we all know just how to type a url or two
but everytime pure org goes wrong we don't know what to do...

(okay, i'll be a good boy and go back to my corner...)