Get MS to donate money to FreeBSD

[Kevin Golding]

In article <20030430152821.69c241a7.dmp at pantherdragon.org>, Darren
Pilgrim <dmp at pantherdragon.org> writes
>Wille Harald <harald.wille at students.jku.at> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:28:14PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>>> I get "No web site is configured at this address"?
>>
>>http://getbettermail.com instead of http://getbettermail.com.
>>
>>without the "." :)
>
>First, the URL I gave my browser didn't contain a trailing period.
>
>Second, a FQDN has a trailing period, so even if the URL my browser got was
>"http://www.getbettermail.com./" it should have been resolved properly.  The
>browser I use (Opera) does resolve FQDNs properly.  The problem is with the
>server hosting getbettermail.com.  IIS fails to properly interpret the trailing
>period and returns the "No web site configured" error.  Of course, Apache
>doesn't have this problem.

I just tried in Phoenix/Firebird and also got the "No web site..."
message.  IE6 just returns it's boring ol' 404 page.  Oh, and I was
using a conventional URL that any server should understand.

>FWIW, www.getbettermail.com seems to have come alive again.

Well, adding the www. returns 500 errors in both Phoenix and IE6 here.

I'm so impressed by all this I'm thinking I'll bin those pesky FreeBSD
machines and migrate to IIS! :-)

Kevin
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