On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:46 PM, marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Oct 28, 7:29 pm, "Barry Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:03 PM, marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > According to what you say, they should be identical, and lead to the
>> > same website, right?
>>
>> No. I said they are different. But the server can treat them the same,
>> not that it does.
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> Barry,
>
> If they are different, then the administrator of usgs.gov can choose
> to setup two separate websites on the two names, (with and without the
> trailing dot), and in that case, Google is correct in treating them
> differently and requiring separate keys for them.

No. You *cant* get seperate keys for them#. The key issuing system
ignores the dot.

In this regard its no different to the same key working for
one.domain.com and two.domain.com


# I didnt check before posting the previous bug report.

>The API developers
> don't have a choice here. They can treat geography.usgs.gov as a
> subdomain of geography.usgs.gov.

No. They can treat geography.usgs.gov as a subdomain of localdomain.
(or what every your search domain is) or as a fqdn (which happens to
omit the final dot)

> but not the other way around.
> So, if I register a key for forum.nu it is no surprise that it will
> not work for forum.nu. (with trailing dot).

Agreed its not a complete surprise, but you should be at least be able
to register a key for the fqdn in that case.

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> Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu
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Barry

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