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Re: URIs, authorities and expectations of dereferencability

• To: "Miles Sabin" <miles@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: URIs, authorities and expectations of dereferencability
• From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...>
• Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:38:57 -0500
• References: <200212311140.59537.miles@m...>

Hah!  What do you know... :)  I am still not convinced, though.  But that
can wait for a 2003 PermaThread...

Happy New Year!

---
Seairth Jacobs
seairth@s...

p.s. Though I admit that using http://www.example.invalid/ may be a good
idea, regardless.

p.p.s. I am surprised that a 404 response did not deter the search engine
from looking for the resource again.  I wonder if one posted a huge list of
bogus URIs for a legitimate domain, would one be able to be able to flood
that domain using "dumb" (those that treat anything that looks like a URI as
an actual URI) search engines?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Miles Sabin" <miles@m...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Cc: <seairth@s...>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 6:40 AM
Subject: URIs, authorities and expectations of dereferencability


> I've been seeing entries like this,
>
>   65.214.36.157 - - [30/Dec/2002:21:06:58 +0000] \
>     "GET /seairth/ HTTP/1.0" 404 283
>
> in my HTTP server logs for www.milessabin.com pretty regularly for a
> while now (the source IP is typically a search engine, in this case
> directhit/teoma), and I've been wondering why on earth that should be.
> I assumed it had _something_ to do with Seairth Jacobs, because
> googling for "seairth" pulls up references to him and not a lot else,
> but beyond that I had no clue.
>
> Well, I finally cracked and decided to get to the bottom of it. And what
> do you know? Searching for "seairth sabin" on teoma got me this,
>
>   http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200207/msg00976.html
>
> Ironic, no? Even tho' he _didn't_ by his lights have the authority to
> create that URI, the mere act of minting it and posting it to a mailing
> list with a web accessible archive created an expectation on the part
> of several agents that it would be usefully dereferencable.
>
> Which seems to support what I (I hoped uncontroversially) said earlier
> in the same thread,
>
>   http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200207/msg00921.html
>
> Happy New Year,
>
>
> Miles (resolving to to use http://www.example.invalid/ from now on ;-)
>

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