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GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft
RobertB-DC writes "Bargain-basement registrar GoDaddy.com has decided to move all its parked domains to Microsoft servers, saying that they'll provide 'a technology platform that is security-enhanced, highly scalable and easy to manage.' This is a shift away from Linux, a decision met with derision by other registrars such as Gandi.net, which greeted the news with the headline 'Go Daddy and never come back'. Late last year, GoDaddy.com had some 'issues', shall we say, with non-Microsoft browsers."
prowress --> prowess
Sounds like the cybernym of a beatnik or a pedophile.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I recently had to write a program for a network programming class that accepts a URL, determines its host and request and sends out an HTTP request, then takes the resulting HTML and parses it for all URLs within it, and finally ping all the URLs it finds in that HTML page. Now, my program is only as verbose as it had to be but out of curiosity, I wanted to use it to try two URLs I saw in the replies for this post. Seeing how everyone says the command-line browsers all fail, I just had to try it, so here's my first try, and I get results as expected: $ java LinkParser www.photosparks.com Running... Connecting to host: www.photosparks.com Sending server the request: GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Java Host: www.photosparks.com Connection: close Pinging www.photosparks.com (gallery) Requesting /gallery/index.html
Returned status 200 OK
Pinging www.photosparks.com (weddings)
Requesting /weddings.html
Returned status 200 OK
Pinging www.photosparks.com (contact)
Requesting /contact.html
Returned status 200 OK
Pinging www.photosparks.com (home)
Requesting /index.html
Returned status 200 OK
Pinging www.photosparks.com (portraits)
Requesting /portraitpricing.html
Returned status 200 OK
Pinging sparks.photoreflect.com (click here)
Requesting /
Returned status 302 Redirect
Pinging www.photoreflect.com (click here)
Requesting /
Returned status 302 Redirect
Okay so now I try another one:
$ java LinkParser www.catalogueofships.com
Running...
Connecting to host: www.catalogueofships.com
Sending server the request:
GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Java
Host: www.catalogueofships.com
Connection: close
And the output stops there, the program just terminates. I have seen this behavior just once before, the sample testing page the professor offered us. It was hosted on the school server which behaved the same way. (I'm not saying it has the same problem as described with godaddy domain, but the result was the same, the program would just seemingly die.) For our scenario, the server was configured to reject all requests that lacked a User-Agent field in the header; it wouldn't even give a connection refused response.
I'm sure if I make my program more verbose I will discover what others have already found about the problem described.
I thought it would be interesting to post these results, and also, what is the purpose to configure a server to reject requests without a User-Agent? If the answer is to stop abusive network traffic, what is the point, anyone can very easily specify any User-Agent value as I have: I simply put "Java" there, as if the server knows any better!
Gentoo Linux - Wouldn't have it any other way. And fuck beta.
"We needed to do some things that were impossible with Linux given the time demands and budget," said Linus Torvalds, a spokesperson for Linus Torvalds. "By migrating all our systems to Microsoft over the next eighteen quarters, we will save an estimated 35% on our IT costs."
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"I knew Ghandi, he was a prick..." (from Robin Williams live on Broadway, so it must be true)