From: Anthony Elizondo <anthony.elizondo@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T08:27:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in URI.parse?

On 11/7/05, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> >> URI.parse "http://london_airport_transfers.hotels-london.co.uk/transfer.php"
> >> URI::InvalidURIError: the scheme http does not accept registry part:
>
> Interestingly, the site also seems to respond to:
>
> http://london-airport-transfers.hotels-london.co.uk/transfer.php
>
> ...with dashes.  (Seems to bring up the same page.)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill

It also responds to http://super-chunky-bacon.hotels-london.co.uk/transfer.php

The magic of wildcard DNS.