If the customer is wanting a domain name of
"dustintrail@extramile2.com", they can't have it. Only letters,
numbers, and hyphen are permissible in a domain name.
The only way that URL would work, as far as I know, is with the
domain name "extramile2.com".
well apparently its an email AND a url... The customer's email
address is dustintrail@extramile2.com
and his url is www.dustintrail@extramile2.com
???? doesn't make sense to me didn't think it would work but
apparently it does...
I tried to argue it... and I usually "fix" them without saying a
word... but the customer caught my fix and has argued it with me...
So my hands are tied.... It goes in teh newspaper as is.....
Camino gives me the following warning before loading the
page:
You are about to log into the site "extramile2.com" with the
username "www%2Edustintrail", but the website does not require
authentication. This may be an attempt to trick you.
@Bishop Exactly the
customer is paying for 3 ads to run this weekend.. So the customer
gets what they want. It has been documented that this is what the
customer wants and signed off on.. LOL you know that whole CYA
concept (Cover Your Ass) just in case they figure out it doesn't
really work and they want their money back because it's an
error......
it could be a very silly way of tracking visitors based on which
ad they came from, their provider could have some webstats package
that shows which user visited. It's still a stupid idea.
I'm usually on the other side of this as people assume my e-mail
address is invalid (null@invalid.name)
Exactly, so long as the customer pays up and insists that's what
they want, they deserve the consequences. :)
As for emails, I did have "bishop@bishop.net" for a while, which
was kinda cool because people presumed I had the whole bishop.net
domain (I didn't -- it was supposed to be a domain for people with
the last name "Bishop", so Joe Bishop could get "joe@bishop.net"
for example.).
But I started getting too damn many mis-addressed emails for a
woman whose address was bishop@bishopnet.com (and her
last name was "Bishop") that I just dropped the
address...
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Generally you can't have an @ sign in a URL.
This is because the @ sign indicates a web site login.
http://username@www.website.com/
If I see a URL with an @ sign in it, I'm instantly suspicious because it's often a means of obfuscating where the web site actually is.
Example:
http://www.wellsfargobank.com@192.168.1....
People might look at that and think they're going to Wells Fargo Bank. But they're not!
3 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
I agree @Bishop but this is what a customer wants in his ad... I'm questioning it now...
3 months, 3 weeks ago by shika.
If the customer is wanting a domain name of "dustintrail@extramile2.com", they can't have it. Only letters, numbers, and hyphen are permissible in a domain name.
The only way that URL would work, as far as I know, is with the domain name "extramile2.com".
3 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
well apparently its an email AND a url... The customer's email address is dustintrail@extramile2.com and his url is www.dustintrail@extramile2.com ???? doesn't make sense to me didn't think it would work but apparently it does...
3 months, 3 weeks ago by shika.
Sure, that can be his email address. But the other one sure as hell can't be his URL.
Not sure what browser you're trying it in that makes it work, but IE here at work chokes on it. :)
I think this is a case of "God save me from customers who think they know more than they really do..."
3 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
Safari accepted it... FF accepts it but removes everything b4& including the @ sign
3 months, 3 weeks ago by shika.
I tried to argue it... and I usually "fix" them without saying a word... but the customer caught my fix and has argued it with me... So my hands are tied.... It goes in teh newspaper as is.....
3 months, 3 weeks ago by shika.
Camino gives me the following warning before loading the page:
You are about to log into the site "extramile2.com" with the username "www%2Edustintrail", but the website does not require authentication. This may be an attempt to trick you.
Is "extramile2.com" the site you want to visit?
3 months, 3 weeks ago by danlane.
Well removing everything before the @ makes perfect sense. That's what the "actual" URL will translate to.
I dunno about his intended audience, but if I were to see an ad with a URL like that, my first thought would be "what idiot wrote that ad!??!!" :D
Basically any competent browser is going to translate http://www.dustintrail@extramile2.com/ into http://extramile2.com/, which will work, given any competent web site administrator. But it just looks stupid. :)
3 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
yea I got that on newer version of FF....
3 months, 3 weeks ago by shika.
@danlane: Due to the trickery I explained above, that's a reasonable warning. This customer needs a thwapping with a cluebat.
But hey, as long as he's paying for the ad, it's his wasted money, right? :)
3 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
@Bishop Exactly the customer is paying for 3 ads to run this weekend.. So the customer gets what they want. It has been documented that this is what the customer wants and signed off on.. LOL you know that whole CYA concept (Cover Your Ass) just in case they figure out it doesn't really work and they want their money back because it's an error......
3 months, 3 weeks ago by shika.
it could be a very silly way of tracking visitors based on which ad they came from, their provider could have some webstats package that shows which user visited. It's still a stupid idea.
I'm usually on the other side of this as people assume my e-mail address is invalid (null@invalid.name)
3 months, 3 weeks ago by danlane.
@danlane yea... and I think your email address is great... almost as good as a friend of mine who had Imnot@home.com
3 months, 3 weeks ago by shika.
Exactly, so long as the customer pays up and insists that's what they want, they deserve the consequences. :)
As for emails, I did have "bishop@bishop.net" for a while, which was kinda cool because people presumed I had the whole bishop.net domain (I didn't -- it was supposed to be a domain for people with the last name "Bishop", so Joe Bishop could get "joe@bishop.net" for example.).
But I started getting too damn many mis-addressed emails for a woman whose address was bishop@bishopnet.com (and her last name was "Bishop") that I just dropped the address...
3 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.