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• To: 'Miles Sabin' <miles@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: URIs harmful (was RE: Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:19:55 -0500

In Internet Explorer, it returns among other things,

11004 - Host not found

Yes.  I consider that a resolution.  It made the 
attempt and found a document to return.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Miles Sabin [mailto:miles@m...]

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote,
> All the "always resolves" means is that if the http: endowed URI is
> handed to a resolver, it will resolve.  What gets returned may be
> caca, but it will resolve.

What? Even http://this.host.does.not.exist/ ?

You won't even get a 404 from that. Do you count TCP-level failures as 
"resolving"?

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