Re: SPEC: DNS conventions & "naming" of VRML sites

Andrew C. Esh ([email protected])
Thu, 15 Jun 1995 14:11:45 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Chris Marrin wrote:

> But you are equating "www" with HTML.

Only as a hint as to the direct address for the host that the site
prefers that you use. We could be neanderthals and require that NO ONE
use either "www" or "vrml" to identify their hosts, and then everyone has
to gui> which host is the one to connect to.

> When I type in "www.sgi.com",
> there's no reason my browser couldn't ask for home.wrl, and if that does
> not exist it can ask for the default home page from that server.

Sigh.

Yes, that's true, there is no restrction. You can get anything from any
host. That's not become popular as a VRML server more quickly, it would be NICE if you gave
it an easily identifiable name. Thi browsers. It's just something to catch the user's eye.

In fact, browsers should NOT make any content decisions based on the
format of the server name. If that was what was suggested in earlier
posts, then I di 

---
Andrew C. Esh                 mailto:[email protected]
Computer Network Technology   [email protected] (finger for PGP key)
6500 Wedgwood Road            612.550.8000 (main)
Maple Grove MN 55311          612.550.8229 (direct)
<A HREF="http://www.mtn.org/~andrewes">ACE Home Page</A>