I just got scammed! A lesson about URLs

[Edward K. Ream]

I responded to a completely bogus text. OOPS. I had to cancel my credit card!

It's pretty funny because I'm always preaching to Rebecca about not responding to unexpected texts.

I learned something today about urls: https://fedex.com is fine. It will redirect to https://www.fedex.com/en-us/home.html. But https://fedex.com@whateer doesn't resolve to fedex!

Edward

[jkn]

yes, always pay most attention to the rightmost part of a URL...

Didn't I read once that Tim Berners-Lee (or maybe someone else)'s biggest regret about the http URL scheme is that the domain order is 'most significant from right to left'?...

    j^n

[Edward K. Ream]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM jkn <jkn...@nicorp.co.uk> wrote:

yes, always pay most attention to the rightmost part of a URL...

Didn't I read once that Tim Berners-Lee (or maybe someone else)'s biggest regret about the http URL scheme is that the domain order is 'most significant from right to left'?...

Nice :-)

Edward

[jkn]

FWIW I think I am conflating two things here:

- Tim Berners-Lee regretted the use of a needlessly-complicated syntax for URLs. eg. <https://teknolojimiz.com/en/tim-berners-lee-url-format-and-regrets/>

- I am sure i have read someone connected with the DNS scheme regretting the order ... it 'should' have been eg com.domain.subdomain etc. I would like to find that reference again