Re: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] A small technical suggestion

["Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Mo McKinlay wrote:

> I could be wrong (and I hope someone will correct me swiftly if I am), but if
> a wildcard SRVs existed for HTTP, other protocols would carry on as though
> they weren't there. Therefore, the only problem is convincing browsers to
> use SRV records (which, in the case of Mozilla-based browsers wouldn't be
> that difficult).

However, this would still break the feature of Mozilla where a user can pick
the search engine they wish to be referred to, or choose not to be referred.

As another post very completely described, there is no technical reason for
this service to be performed at the DNS level, as it is already being done
at the browser level.

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