To: Jon Tara who wrote (879 ) 2/7/1999 2:08:00 PM From: Jon Tara Respond to of 2003
Complete Mr. Science experimental kit: the simweb.com mystery unraveled! Here's something else interesting about the "simweb" connection. The home page for zulugroup.com actually does refer to the "images" directory. But the the files that they use are NOT listed in the simweb.com directory! Here are some of the files used in the zulugroup.com home page: dot.gif zululogo_main3.jpg zulucontrol.jpg There are others. Now, go to www.zulumedia.com/images/ or www.simweb.com/images. Do you see any of those files listed? No, they aren't. Now, let's try this experiment. Let's try accessing the images individually, not the directory. First, try this one:zulumedia.com So far, so good, right? Now, let's see if it's also on the simweb site:simweb.com Oops, where did it go?! So, my final technical conslusion is this. The zulumedia.com web server is set-up to redirect the url "www.zulumedia.com/images" to "simweb.com/images". I assume that this is a leftover artifact from the transition from SIM. But their web server is NOT set-up to redirect the CONTENTS of the directory to simweb.com. That is, "www.zulumedia.com/images/xyz.gif" does NOT get redirected. That's why you actually get the images from the zulugroup.com web site. This has the side-effect of keeping your snooping eyes out of the images directory at the zulumedia.com site. :) Of course, this would be easier to accomplish (if this is why they did it - I doubt that, though) by simply disallowing access to the base url of the images directory, or else globally disallowing directory listing. You see, PartyTime, how easy it is to be fooled when you have incomplete information? And how important it is to verify your information ? How would you feel if somebody made an investment based on your speculation-presented-as-fact, if, say, they thought the ISP business was a good one, and they believed that ZULU was now going into the ISP business? Would you feel bad? (Or would you just say that they should check their facts before they invest? :) ) This will, I am certain, be verified by the simweb.com webmaster tomorrow. You need any mysteries solved, just ask. Any time.