Re: URI::Heuristic
acassin@cs.mu.oz.au
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:40:13 +1000 (EST)
On 16 Oct , Gisle Aas wrote:
> I am not sure about "really needs", but I am sure it is nice
> sometimes. I started writing it when I decided that lwp-request
> should accepts URLs like this instead of always defaulting to a local
> file.
Yeah I guess it is a case of ``horses for courses''. I never use a
partial url so I just cant see why it would be useful.
> This is the bad part of it, especially for those countries that have
> lot of structure to their DNS name space. We should probably trim
> down the lists to the bare minimum, but for Norway this works well.
I see occasional DNS failures due to load on our internal machines
(we are a university with *thousands* of users pummeling our net
resources). DNS failures are a significant problem. I see situations
where lookups of perfectly valid hostnames fail and then resolve
correctly several seconds (say about 30-60s) later.
In this case, URI::Heuristic is probably going to fail anyway :-(
Perhaps you need DNS::Heuristic :-) oops, that should be
Net::Domain::Heuristic::KISS :-)
Andrew Cassin
acassin@cs.mu.oz.au