Re: [MLUG] Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Need help understanding the ~

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Christian M. Cepel wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
> >
> > > Unless this is just academic, I've explained myself poorly.
> > >
> > > I'm just looking for a solution for our need to continue the existence 
> > > of public urls (example http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~vrcbd/) in a 
> > > world where the powers that be insist that due to the tilde and the 
> > > security concerns associated, these addresses will be orphaned...
> >
> > How will they be ophaned?  What is the mechanism?  Will HTTP requests be 
> > blocked at the perimeter so that they never get to your server?  This part 
> > needs to be explained to me.  Or are you only talking about accounts on 
> > the server called tiger.coe.missouri.edu?
>
> The server has gathered several subdomains over the years of musical servers, 
> www.coe.missouri.edu, tiger.coe.missouri.edu iats-coe1.missouri.edu.  They 
> will simply delete the subdomains rather than maintain their entry in the DNS 
> pointing to the new server.  That's sufficient, but even if they were to 
> maintain them, they are not going to allow any ~ access of accounts.   They 
> are setting everybody up with their own subdomain, e.g., 
> kidtools.missouri.edu, strategytools.missouri.edu, vrcbd.missouri.edu... etc. 
> What's ironic is that 8.5 years ago I _tried_ to get the subdomain 'kidtools' 
> and was refused... told that they did not do that *grin*  Now they are 
> insisting.


I'm not understanding why the ~ is a big problem.  If you have been using 
this URL...

http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~vrcbd/

...and tiger.coe.missouri.edu is no longer going to exist, then your URL 
will no longer work even if there was no tilde.

Mike

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