On Tue, March 13, 2007 1:56 pm, Yannick Warnier wrote: >> > According to RFC1033 ( >> > http://www.camtp.uni-mb.si/books/Internet-Book/DNS_NameFormat.html >> ), >> > underscores are forbidden in DNS names, including subdomains. > >> >> Yeah, meaning that the program where you created the subdomain with >> is not >> following the RFC standards..... >> Some programmers have hard time following standards... > > Yes... Apache 2, namely (what a bunch of inexperienced developers, > really ;-) ). > > But you can't know all the web RFC standards by heart, can you? > > The problem also is that the browsers don't give any warning. IE > displays it *but* does not record cookies. Others just work completely > with it. I wonder if the changes that allow for Interntional domain names, with various Unicode characters I don't even know how to get out of my keyboard, *ALSO* made _ suddenly be legal... Just a hypothesis. I gotta say that Apache being current on RFCs and IE being broken seems a lot more likely to this naive reader... :-) And you have to admit that if various characters that my keyboard can't even produce are valid URL characters, then outlawing '_' is kinda bogus... Hmmmmm. Maybe I should try to register l_i_e.com :-) God knows somebody probably tried to use that to get to me once. The joy of reading and memorizing RFCs is that the dang things keep changing in non-BC ways, and one (read: Richard Lynch) can end up posting "facts" that are no longer true. :-( -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
