web site names

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Leo Roberts

Here's a question I've never heard addressed.
With all the sophistication available today, why in the
world can't web site names include a space.
Windows has allowed spaces in file names for years now.
I would think that a space contains the same binary
information as any other typed character.
I'm very curious.
 
Windows and the Internet use different ways to perform name resolution

The Internet uses TCP/IP-DNS which is <host>.<site>.<prefix> (e.g.
www.google.com).

Windows (which also supports TCP/IP-DNS naming) is based upon NetBIOS naming
conventions, which is <hostname> and hostname is up to 15 characters. Well
you can see the downside of this as the namespace doesn't scale very well.
 
Leo said:
Here's a question I've never heard addressed.
With all the sophistication available today, why in the
world can't web site names include a space.
Windows has allowed spaces in file names for years now.
I would think that a space contains the same binary
information as any other typed character.
I'm very curious.
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<Flame on>

Any amount of sophistication can be overcome by inadequate
implementation and/or poor testing. In fact, the way that
WinDuhs handles spaces in file/folder names is a crock,
created for backward compatibility with DOS's 8.3 file naming.
E.g., in order to handle names with spaces, the names must be
enclosed within quotes, but lazy programmers (many of whom
reside in a suburb of Seattle) choose to use the 8.3 SFN instead
of the "L F N" format; backup problems ensue.

<Flame off>

There's more to it than that, but this is a low-flame day.
 
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