On Mon, 27 May 2019 09:32:56 +0100
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 27/05/2019 07:16, Andy Burns wrote:
> > Pete wrote:
> >
> >> I can't open http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/  > itself ("source
> >> could not be found"), but that's probably expected.
> >
> > Yes, that's what I get in firefox on a PC where
> >
> > http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio2_mf_p
> >
> > manages to play the R2 stream.
>
> That is because URIs no longer represent actual server directory
> structures.

 They never did in principle - that's just an implementation
artefact of simple web servers, and even when they do it's not uncommon to
block access to intermediate levels to hinder bulk scraping.

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