----- Original Message ----- From: "BARRY HOLLAND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Fwd: Missing boat/person - Nb Holly - Middlewich Narrowboats
> > > Molly Mockford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 10:54:14 > on Tue, 17 Apr 2007, BARRY HOLLAND > wrote: > >> Just try it without the 3 though Graham & you can see what I mean. >>One gets through to the Herts. Police site--it looks like a front page >>of a paper but with the main story missing. It's not as if it's a >>computer generated instruction. > > Yes, it is computer-generated. > provides the > framework, the main part of the page. tells the web > page to fetch an article with that reference number from the database > and display it in the space reserved for it. If no article exists with > the reference number, nothing gets displays in the space. > -- > Molly Mockford > > Molly, > We're into semantics here. When I said it wasn't computer-generated I > meant that one of the 'computer-generated' announcements [such as 'error > 404' or the like] didn't appear on, & take up the whole screen, but rather > I got through to the Herts site &, to the great unwashed, the 'newspaper > front page' appeared to deny the story's existence! > Remember, you're talking to someone who doesn't live, eat & breathe > computers & doesn't necessarily have all the right words for the right > circumstances :-)) > Barry > Nb technologyis**tit Barry - when the 3 got removed from the end of the link, the rest of the number was still there, so the system would have seen it as a different number. You were lucky it happened to be a number for a file that didn't exist, otherwise you could have got a completely different file. Dave.
