On 8/10/06, Steve Wyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Schika wrote:
> Well, I was going to try this on test for an russian artist I know,
> who also use LiveJournal. Now I came across a tiny problem: if the
> artist use some unconventional chars in his LJ-name, the proposed
> url-type
> h++p://<artist>.livejournal.com/
> can't be used (a try to open that URL results with the well loved 404 error).
>
> Only the 'old' profile links will work:
>
> h++p://www.livejournal.com/~<artist>
> h++p://users.livejournal.com/<artist>
> h++p://www.livejournal.com/users/<artist>
>
> In my case, the LJ-name of the artist starts with an underscore "_"
Yes, that is because underscores arn't valid anywhere in host or domain
names.
_'s can be turned into -'s, EXCEPT when a - will be the first
character. anywhere else in the domain name/subdomain (except the end
too I think) is fair game.
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