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And that would have wrapped DNS and HTTP together in a very uncomfortable way -- you'd have to make at least one extra DNS query for every HTTP request to disam
by blasdel 17y ago
And that would have wrapped DNS and HTTP together in a very uncomfortable way -- you'd have to make at least one extra DNS query for every HTTP request to disambiguate.
People would just end up using a different separator after the DNS part, and you'd be back where you started (just with big-endian domain names).
- jacquesm 17y agoYes, that's exactly what I would have expected to happen, with the // as a prime candidate for that separator. Big-endian domain names would have been very nice to have though, if only because it would have been a lot more orderly than the current jumble. Big-endian for the 'major' components and the path name, little-endian for the host portion seems a bit weird. mail:/com/domain/hostname//username Would look strange though...