On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 10:24, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Do you think a desirable feature would be for the installer / GUI tools > > to reject an "http://"; being placed in front of the hostname? I've seen > > a newbie mess this up, and then have KDE refuse to start and Gnome > > regularly complain. She had to be coached to use vi in order to be able > > to fix it :-) > > > Definitely not, because the http refers to the communication protocol > something uses to talk to the host and is not part of the hostname. You > could have ftp://www.mrball.net, rsync://www.mrball.net, > smb://www.mrball.net, etc.
Greg, that's my point - surely one NEVER places the protocol in the host name. I'm suggesting the mandrake tools could stop this from happening. That's all :-) Best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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