Getting a web page from filePro

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Sun Jan 30 09:45:52 PST 2005


The honourable and venerable Walter Vaughan spoke thus:
> Bill Vermillion wrote:
> 
> > The chances of them moving this site are more remote than the very
> > real possibility of UPS using round-robin DNS to lighten/spread
> > the load among many machines. 
> 
> That ip address has been up since the begining (97-8?). At one time we 

And could change any minute.  The machine could fall over dead.  They could
redo their topography.  You're not -getting it-, Walter.  Frankly, I'd have
expected more ready understanding from you.

> migrated to something that used the DNS and all those cgi variables 
> figuring that it would be the "right" thing to do. After the *second* 
> time they changed how it worked, we've gone back to the orignal (and 
> still supported this minute) method.

And if/when they pull it, you'll be screwed.  You were warned.  Archive it
so we never have to say we told you so.  :)

YMMV as well, but I still think it's poor practise not to follow their
specifications to the fullest degree possible.  Eventually it bites you.

mark->
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