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Re:http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener by jfr on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:18AM (#974554)
URL regexes which were already broken from the beginning...
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Re:http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener by wmf on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:28PM (#975016)
Indeed. DNS names without dots have been used for decades in intranets.
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Re:http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener by rythie on Friday December 04, 2009 @05:23AM (#976103)
However what it resolves to depends on you search domain. If I shared http://www on twitter everyone would most likely see a different site. People should really be using http://to. to avoid conflicts with internal servers called 'to'
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Re:http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener by technomancy on Thursday December 03, 2009 @08:06PM (#975572)
Not to mention http://museum
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