Email conversation
| From | Muhammad Jazman |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Your site (www.howtocreate.co.uk) contain word ... |
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| Date | 19 April 2007 17:42 |
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Dear Sir,
I like your site (www.howtocreate.co.uk), it teach me a lot in JavaScript.
The only small problem is: I cant access your javascript example, just
because your link was formatted like this:
/jsexamples/
--> and it's contain word 'sex'
Internet policy in my university prohibit any http request from that
type or URI.
I hope you willing to change it ... I'll really appreciate it. Thanks.
Regards,
Muhammad Jazman
| From | Me |
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| To | Muhammad Jazman |
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| Subject | Re: Your site (www.howtocreate.co.uk) contain word ... |
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| Date | 19 April 2007 20:04 |
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Muhammad,
> /jsexamples/
> --> and it's contain word 'sex'
Yes, I know. And I find it very funny when it triggers an over-enthusiastic
filter. Substring word filtering in URLs is so lame. Sorry, but I will not
change it, since it stands for JS (short for JavaScript) Examples, and is a
perfectly valid URL. Changing it would only break all search engines and
bookmarks for the existing pages, and I do not want to do that. I also do
not want to create virtual directory names that mirror the normal one,
since I do not want duplicate links to be possible.
If your university is blocking it, please ask them to fix their filters.
What would they do if they encounter an article about Essex, Sussex, Wessex,
or Middlesex (all places in UK)? And then of course, there is Scunthorpe,
well known for a certain substring it contains. What would they do if a
student needs to research asexual reproduction (assuming such subjects are
allowed)?
They should probably be using word boundary checking, such as this:
\bsex\b
In the mean time, if you want to access it, you will probably find you can
bypass their filter by using an anonymizing service such as
[URL] or [URL] - make sure you enable
scripts in the options on those sites, and note that a few of the examples
may break if they need to communicate with the server.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/