[ale] OT: Stupid Windows Trick

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:20 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote: 

> Thanks for the post.  They explain it but don?t explain ?why? they
> wouldn?t have had it resolve localhost properly.  If it doesn?t use it
> then why does it resolve anything at all?
> 
> Saying it is by design reminds me of a person who stumbles and
> suddenly starts a little jog to cover for it.  ?I didn?t stumble ? I
> just suddenly felt like running.?  J


Yep.

It amazes me that little things like that don't "just work."  How many
lines of code does it take to create a special case (in this instance)
to detect that someone is attempting to view \\localhost and either (A)
make it work as expected (e.g., follow the rule of least surprise) or
(B) fail loudly and go "Use the hostname, silly"?

    -- Mike

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