Re: HTTP is a domain name

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> On 08/29/2022 7:51 AM EDT Bron Gondwana <brong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>  
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, at 21:44, Timothy Mcsweeney wrote:
> > 
> > > On 08/29/2022 7:38 AM EDT Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 07:33:44AM -0400,
> > >  Timothy Mcsweeney <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
> > >  a message of 23 lines which said:
> > > 
> > > > Do you agree with the title?
> > > 
> > > No:
> > > 
> > > %  dig -t AAAA http 
> > > 
> > > ; <<>> DiG 9.16.27-Debian <<>> -t AAAA http
> > > ;; global options: +cmd
> > > ;; Got answer:
> > > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 1762
> > > ...
> > 
> > I didn't say FQDN.  Just a domain name.
> 
> Those 4 characters are valid as a hostname, which can be used unqualified in a URI, e.g:
> 
> brong@zula:~$ sudo vi /etc/hosts
> brong@zula:~$ wget http://http/
> Resolving http (http)... 127.0.0.1
> Connecting to http (http)|127.0.0.1|:80... failed: Connection refused.
> 
> But this doesn't mean that URI schemes and hostnames are identical, just because they can contain the same characters.

What about just brong@zula:~$ wget http?
Sorry I'm on an old chromebook ATM and I don't think I can wget from crosh.




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