On Oct 28, 8:29 pm, "Barry Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No. You *cant* get seperate keys for them#. The key issuing system > ignores the dot. >
Right, so if you want to go strictly by the book, it ought to be possible to register a key with the trailing dot. Agreed. But that is different from ignoring it when present while requesting the API. > > 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) > If you agreed that they are different, then they cannot treat it as an FQDN which happened to omit the dot, because there could well be two different web sites set up on each one, and belonging to differnt owners. :-) Just to make that more apparent, a quick try of 10 big names yielded 3 domains where the dot. no-dot equivalents lead to apparently different sites, so I think it is reasonable to assume that this is a common occurance, though it is by mistake, and not because the administrator intended to set up different sites: www.army.mil www.army.mil. whitehouse.gov whitehouse.gov. fbi.gov fbi.gov. -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- > > 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. > > > > > -- > > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > > -- > > -- > Barry > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
