On 27/05/2019 10:06, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 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 That is because URIs no longer represent actual server directory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.
>
Indeed. But its amazing how man 'simple web servers' there used to be
out there..



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