Re: [DML] Permanent solution for engine cover hinge rust

[Noah <sitz@xxxx>]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 aabclafon@xxxx wrote:

> Could not load the website that Mark suggested
> www.de_lorean__steel_products_.purespace.de/english.html
> 
> Is this the correct address?

Nope. Sorry, I meant to send out a correction.

<voice value="geek">
The first part of any URL (like the above) is the name of the
server from which you are requesting a page. Everything after the 3rd
slash (the one after the ".com" in most of the sites we go to) is just a
path to a file. Underscores in server names (in this case, the
'www.de_lorean__steel_products_.purespace.de' part) are /illegal/. If you
see 'em, the person handing you the URL messed up (unless we're speaking
of an NT intranet, in which case all bets are off. But that's windows,
which means all bets are off. :D ). So I took a guess that all underscores
should be replaced by hyphens. Which is fine, except multiple adjacent
hyphens are also verboten, as are having hyphens adjecnt to a '.'. So we
kill the dupe and the one next to the dot, and get the following URL:

www.de-lorean-steel-products.purespace.de/english.html

Bingo.

</voice>

Yes, I do this for a living. Betcha couldn't tell, huh? :)

noah
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