Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:21:09PM +0100, Steve Roome wrote:
> ping http://www.myserver.wherever/
>  instead of telnet wherever 80, just to see if I get a connected or
>  not ?

Do you have *ANY* clue how ping works?  Ping uses ICMP packets; not TCP,
not UDP -- thus there is NO concept of ports.  And what does "instead of
telnet mean"??  Again, do you have any clue how ping works?

To the person that wants to "traceroute http://www.myserver.wherever/";,
do you have *ANY* clue how traceroute works?  You cannnot use a port that
something is answering on.

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-- David  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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