2008/12/8 Aryeh Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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
Yes, but in the experience of someone non-technical they generally are. You don't generally see the URLs for images/scripts/etc. directly, and if a URL has lots of confusing stuff appended to it you just ignore it as being far too scary and complicated, so the only URLs you see are ones that canonically describe a particular webpage. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
