The owner of the "xyz.com" domain might not be happy that their domain is used is examples. RFC 2606 reserves (among others) "example.com" for this purpose, so let's use it. Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@xxxxxxxxx> --- man7/uri.7 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7 index d1f20e5..4d3fc6a 100644 --- a/man7/uri.7 +++ b/man7/uri.7 @@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ The is the name of the host computer, either its name as determined by DNS or an IP address (numbers separated by periods). Thus the URI -<http://fred:fredpassword@xxxxxxx:8080/> -logs into a web server on host xyz.com +<http://fred:fredpassword@xxxxxxxxxxx:8080/> +logs into a web server on host example.com as fred (using fredpassword) using port 8080. Avoid including a password in a URI if possible because of the many security risks of having a password written down. -- 2.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
