On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The poor woman clearly didn't know the difference between a URL and a web >> page. > > Indeed, but in her defence to two are generally in one-to-one > correspondence (they aren't for Wikipedia, of course, and the fact > that IWF don't know that means people can bypass the block pretty > easily).
No, they really aren't. Any given web page will normally correspond to a practically unlimited number of URLs: append ?unused=meaningless to the end, or #nonexistent-id. (Although the latter doesn't travel across the network, so isn't relevant here.) Conversely, many -- possibly most -- URLs don't correspond to web pages, but rather to images, scripts, etc. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg?this_does_nothing http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg?this_also_does_nothing http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg?I_can_make_lots_of_URLs_like_this _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
