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woah! whats with the hp site permalink/URI/url formatting? http://h30499.www3.hp.com/ http://h30499.www3.hp.com/

by pavs 14y ago

ars 14y ago
What's wrong with that? Seems perfectly fine to me.
- pimentel 14y ago
  If I didn't know my computer stuff, I would say it's a virus website. What's that h30499? www3? Why not communities.hp.com? (this actually redirects to h30507.www3.hp.com). h30500 asks for httpauth. It's just ugly, is it not?
  - jonknee 14y ago
    > If I didn't know my computer stuff, I would say it's a virus website. If you didn't know your computer stuff you wouldn't have ever noticed the URL.
    - pimentel 14y ago
      I could be a basic user that knows how to avoid clicking strange links to avoid email viruses. I could know enough to notice the URL, but not enough to know that the domain hp.com is what really counts.
    - r00fus 14y ago
      If you're trying to auth, and you get one subdomian vs. another - it's a pain in the ass for all users. That's why other big properties have unified to one domain and subroutes (e.g.: google.com - no more reader.google.com, but www.google.com/reader).
SquareWheel 14y ago
You know, I've actually seen a pretty useful writeup on why HP urls are so crazy. I wish I knew where to find it, but there was some allegedly logical reason. I think it had to do with the site knowing which server to talk to? I wish I could remember more.
- pavs 14y ago
  If this is the reason, thats a horrible way to do it. Would love to know whats their thinking behind this.
verbophobe 14y ago
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/09/hp-license-plate-domains http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/09/hp-license-plate...
- pavs 14y ago
  Thanks for the link. This is crazy. SquareWheel was right. This is an absolutely brain-dead way of doing this, by a very incompetent IT admin.
  - btipling 14y ago
    And yet that it persists brings to mind all the problems faced by large organizations. An inability to change processes, execute quickly on decisions, disconnect between customers and company operations. Which is why startups can disrupt them. Pretty much everything HP produces seems mediocre and of substandard quality including their printers, ink, devices, services such as their open stack cloud offerring.
    - yuhong 14y ago
      Which is only now improving with Meg Whitman.

woah! whats with the hp site permalink/URI/url formatting? http://h30499.www3.hp.com/ http://h30499.www3.hp.com/

by pavs 14y ago

woah! whats with the hp site permalink/URI/url formatting? http://h30499.www3.hp.com/ http://h30499.www3.hp.com/

ars 14y ago

What's wrong with that? Seems perfectly fine to me.

pimentel 14y ago
If I didn't know my computer stuff, I would say it's a virus website. What's that h30499? www3? Why not communities.hp.com? (this actually redirects to h30507.www3.hp.com). h30500 asks for httpauth. It's just ugly, is it not?
- jonknee 14y ago
  > If I didn't know my computer stuff, I would say it's a virus website. If you didn't know your computer stuff you wouldn't have ever noticed the URL.
  - pimentel 14y ago
    I could be a basic user that knows how to avoid clicking strange links to avoid email viruses. I could know enough to notice the URL, but not enough to know that the domain hp.com is what really counts.
  - r00fus 14y ago
    If you're trying to auth, and you get one subdomian vs. another - it's a pain in the ass for all users. That's why other big properties have unified to one domain and subroutes (e.g.: google.com - no more reader.google.com, but www.google.com/reader).

SquareWheel 14y ago

You know, I've actually seen a pretty useful writeup on why HP urls are so crazy. I wish I knew where to find it, but there was some allegedly logical reason. I think it had to do with the site knowing which server to talk to? I wish I could remember more.

pavs 14y ago
If this is the reason, thats a horrible way to do it. Would love to know whats their thinking behind this.

verbophobe 14y ago

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/09/hp-license-plate-domains http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/09/hp-license-plate...

pavs 14y ago
Thanks for the link. This is crazy. SquareWheel was right. This is an absolutely brain-dead way of doing this, by a very incompetent IT admin.
- btipling 14y ago
  And yet that it persists brings to mind all the problems faced by large organizations. An inability to change processes, execute quickly on decisions, disconnect between customers and company operations. Which is why startups can disrupt them. Pretty much everything HP produces seems mediocre and of substandard quality including their printers, ink, devices, services such as their open stack cloud offerring.
  - yuhong 14y ago
    Which is only now improving with Meg Whitman.