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Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble
From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:43:58 -0400
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:35 PM, David Conrad <drc () virtualized org> wrote:
It's got some interesting implications if it's: domain.exe ... 'did you mean to go to domain.exe or execute domain.exe or display domain.pdf ?' the UI folks will have a headache with that I bet... I could see a rule set (simplified) like: 1) if -f domain.exe && -x domain.exe ; then exec(domain.exe) 2) if ! -f domain.exe ; then openlocation(domain.exe)Do UI folks today have trouble with: domain.com domain.pl domain.ps domain.sh etc.? Is there an application that treats a local file specifier and a host specifier indistinguishably? If so, how does it deal with strings (like those I listed above) that could potentially be executables as well as domain names?
see previous 'not been using dos in a while ,doh!' sorry :( I suspect .pl/.sh/.ps things are not normal user-application things (not windows things) so perhaps these are handled sanely. Or maybe there aren't reasons to look for this sort of thing over a network today so the problem doesn't exist? I know that in some applications (php things) you can open() a file or a 'url', maybe these things do something sane already? or maybe it's a corner case that doesnt' get tickled today with .exe or .gif ? Still, is all the world a web-browser?? (displaying 'web content' to things not web-browsers has already been proven to be a bad plan) -Chris
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- Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble Barry Shein (Apr 13)
- Re: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 14)
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- Re: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 14)
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- Re: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble Christopher Morrow (Apr 14)
- Fwd: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble Christopher Morrow (Apr 14)
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble Eric Brunner-Williams (Apr 14)
- Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble David Conrad (Apr 14)
- Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble Christopher Morrow (Apr 14)
- Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 14)
- Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble bmanning (Apr 14)
- Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble Duane Wessels (Apr 14)
- Re: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 14)
- Re: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble Stuart Henderson (Apr 14)
- Re: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble Christopher Morrow (Apr 14)
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- Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble Robert Bonomi (Apr 15)
- RE: Problems sending mail from .mumble Fred Reimer (Apr 15)