2008/12/8 Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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_no... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg?this_also_do... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg?I_can_make_l...
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.