All good, valid and useful points. However, I would at least like to maintain the same functionality of the Twitter App for iPhone.
The app does does a pretty good job of detecting and reviewing the URL to determine if it can be assumed to be 20 characters. On Mar 3, 7:16 pm, Conrad Shultz <con...@synthetiqsolutions.com> wrote: > On 3/3/12 5:48 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > > Look up the hostname. No ping required. > > As I mentioned in the reply I just posted, even looking up the hostname > is potentially problematic. One obvious case that I overlooked in my > response: mandatory hostname lookup will cripple your functionality if > you don't have an active network connection. > > As for ping, not only does the OP not need it, they shouldn't even think > about using it. A *huge* number of sites block ICMP echo requests. For > example, cnn.com (employing the OP's example) doesn't respond to ping! > > This then quickly leads us down the reachability/two generals rabbit > hole that this list seems doomed to repeat every six months or so. > > > Honestly, use Data Detectors. > > Ditto, of course. > > -- > Conrad Shultz > > Synthetiq Solutionswww.synthetiqsolutions.com > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (cocoa-...@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your > Subscription:https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoa-dev-garchive-... > > This email sent to cocoa-dev-garchive-98...@googlegroups.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
