Bret Miller wrote: > I'm starting to see references in messages that look like this: > > www.achat-montre-rolex.net./ > > > Of course, it's not really a valid URL,
Actually, it is. A single trailing dot is perfectly legal in a FQDN. In fact, it's arguably a good thing to put the trailing dot, though I've never seen anybody do so. Most ISPs that host multiple web sites on a single host will not check for the "."-ed version of the domain name they sell you. But the request will get to the right server. Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer perl -e"map{y/a-z/l-za-k/;print}shift" "Jjhi pcdiwtg Ptga wprztg,"