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• Subject: Re: URIs harmful (was RE: Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:29:44 +0100
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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"?

Cheers,


Miles

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