Re: a recommendation

Fastpitch Central - Bill, on 2002-04-15, wrote:

> <base href="http://www.mycompany.com" dotnum="208.239.76.34" />

> When DNS fails the dotnum is attempted.  If the dotnum is still valid
> the <BASE> tag acts as its own DNS and the web page should still be
> displayed despite the DNS error.

It's not smart to have the content layer start making up ad-hoc solutions
for problems in the code/protocol layer.  Furthermore, how would a client
even receive the page that has this information in it, if it's not
addressable with an A record?  Catch 22.

-- 
Frank Tobin		http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/

Received on Thursday, 18 April 2002 14:01:42 UTC