Comments on: Problems with restful_authentication Plugin and Internet Explorer Cookies http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2008/07/11/problems-with-restful_authentication-plugin-and-internet-explorer-cookies/ News and updates from the people at SmartLogic Solutions Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:08:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: John Trupiano http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2008/07/11/problems-with-restful_authentication-plugin-and-internet-explorer-cookies/comment-page-1/#comment-100 John Trupiano Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:52:03 +0000 http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2008/07/11/problems-with-restful_authentication-plugin-and-internet-explorer-cookies/#comment-100 Thanks for the extra link George-- When you think about it, this is all really my fault. A registrar wouldn't sell me a domain name with an _. But there's nothing stopping me from setting up DNS for a subdomain with one... Thanks for the extra link George– When you think about it, this is all really my fault. A registrar wouldn’t sell me a domain name with an _. But there’s nothing stopping me from setting up DNS for a subdomain with one…

]]> By: George Anderson http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2008/07/11/problems-with-restful_authentication-plugin-and-internet-explorer-cookies/comment-page-1/#comment-99 George Anderson Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:37:22 +0000 http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2008/07/11/problems-with-restful_authentication-plugin-and-internet-explorer-cookies/#comment-99 I ran into the same issue. Frustrating, to say the least. After suitably cursing IE, I came to discover underscores are verboten in domain names. From: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035 [Domain names (including subdomains] must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. Hyphens, yes. Underscores, no. After working with Ruby for a bit, you start to prefer the underscore to the hyphen. Unfortunately, that doesn't work with domain names. Interestingly, using different forms on netsol.com to attempt to register a domain name with an underscore, you either break the page, or get a useful error message: "Please use only letters, numbers or dashes [-]. Do not enter spaces, periods [.] or other punctuation." I ran into the same issue. Frustrating, to say the least. After suitably cursing IE, I came to discover underscores are verboten in domain names.

From: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035

[Domain names (including subdomains] must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen.

Hyphens, yes. Underscores, no.

After working with Ruby for a bit, you start to prefer the underscore to the hyphen. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work with domain names.

Interestingly, using different forms on netsol.com to attempt to register a domain name with an underscore, you either break the page, or get a useful error message: “Please use only letters, numbers or dashes [-]. Do not enter spaces, periods [.] or other punctuation.”

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