RE: [xml-dev] URIs harmful (was RE: [xml-dev] Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:] 
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:20 AM
> To: 'Miles Sabin'; 
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] URIs harmful (was RE: [xml-dev] 
> Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

No it didn't:

$ wget http://this.host.does.not.exist/
--19:06:00--  http://this.host.does.not.exist/
           => `index.html'
Resolving this.host.does.not.exist... failed: Host not found.

$ telnet http://this.host.does.not.exist/ 80
http://this.host.does.not.exist/: No address associated with name

Getting an error message in Internet Explorer does not count as
retrieving a document to me not does it to WGET, TELNET or any other
mechanism I'd use to dereference that URL. 


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