On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Ben Kennedy wrote: > George Kirikos wrote at 3:17 pm (-0700) on 13 6 2005: > > >Personally, I'm not sure why they did this, instead of using a > >subdomain like http://objects.paypal.com/ . Yahoo does the same thing, > >using yimg.com for many of their images. I suppose the extra domain can > >have different TTL settings in the DNS, or reduce the load on their > >main domain, or something.... > > With the zone nature of DNS neither of those should be an issue. I too > would like to know the rationale for this. It seems stupid to me, since
<snip> AFAIK, this is a common trick for domains where there are either large numbers of cookies or large cookies in use. Then it becomes worth moving your static images to a server outside of the domain name, so that the cookies are not sent during the static requests. (IMHO, IANAL, just guessing, etc....) -Tom ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | How often I found where I should be going http://BareMetal.com/ | only by setting out for somewhere else. web hosting since '95 | -- R. Buckminster Fuller _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
