On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> 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_n…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg?this_also_d…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg?I_can_make_…
