On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:58:13PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:17:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu 25 Sep 03, 10:46 AM, Rob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:24:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > i didn't know this. so, an URL is of the form: > > > > > > > > > > URL = user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > where lowercase "url" is what i used to think of as being an url. and > > > > > the "user:password@" portion is optional. > > > > > > > > Right. You've probably even seen it for an ftp url...works the same way > > > > for http, just not seen as often. > > > > > > aha. thanks! > > > > > > > As a side note, Opera gave me the following in a popup when I tried to > > > > click on your URL > > > > > > > > Security warning: > > > > > > > > You are about to go to an address containing a username. > > > > > > > > Username: www.citibank.com > > > > Server: a3ksd.pisem.net > > > > > > > > Are you sure you want to go to this address? > > > > > > yeah, i got that too (i'm on opera). > > > > > > i was convinced the email was a fraud by looking at it. i know banks > > > don't ask for PIN's. they go through great lengths not to know your PIN > > > when you create the account. for instance, washing mutual has a machine > > > you enter your PIN into, and the teller has to walk at least 3 feet away > > > and turn around before you punch your number in. > > > > > > but i was so darned curious, i had to investigate! > > > > > > pete > > > > Also, guess it doesn't hurt to say that you should never have your PIN > > for online banking match the one for your ATM. Or if you're forced, be > > bloody sure that the site you enter it, really is your bank's site. > > Do you know of banks that let you choose two different PINs, one for > online, one for ATM? That'd be nice...
Wells Fargo and Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union BOTH allow this... > > Oh, URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier (see RFC 2396 for > > details) > > Yeah, it does... but what does that have to do with anything? All of > the URIs he cited are also valid URLs, so he's perfectly right to > refer to them as such, if that's what you're getting at. Also, the > difference is mostly theoretical, as I haven't seen many (any?) REAL > URNs in the wild, except for "persistent URLs". Someone mentioned a URI back in this thread somewhere and was hazy, so I tried to make it clearer. When you really get down to it, its irrelevant what you call it, just so it gives you the information you are looking for. Mike _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
