[rt-users] Jesse's Personal Domain: fsck.com-rt is action result messages on web interface?

[Kevin Riggle]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:36:23PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
> Trying to delete: Base: fsck.com-rt://suretecsystems.com/ticket/83 Target:
> Type MemberOf
> 
> How come Jesse's personal domain appears here?

One of the ways an RT instance references its own tickets is the 
fsck.com-rt:// URI.  According to Jesse:

> At the time it was built, the emerging standard
> for "Vendor" URI schemes was to prefix them with the vendor's domain
> name, so you didn't conflict with anyone else's URI schemes.

At that time, this meant fsck.com.  Since there are now extensions and
other third-party code which rely on this behavior, it's hard to
change.

- Kevin Riggle
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:49:14PM -0400, Kevin Riggle wrote:
> Jesse -
> 
> Someone asked about this on rt-users.  Since I knew (having just been
> poking around with URI stuff), I wrote this up, but wanted to
> double-check that it was accurate, since I'm talking second-hand about
> stuff that happened way before this summer.  Let me know if I'm wrong
> about anything.


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> - Kevin
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> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:36:23PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
> > Trying to delete: Base: fsck.com-rt://suretecsystems.com/ticket/83 Target:
> > Type MemberOf
> > 
> > How come Jesse's personal domain appears here?
> 
> One of the ways an RT instance references its own tickets is the 
> fsck.com-rt:// URI. 'fsck.com' was used to make the URI unique to RT,
> and since there are extensions now which rely on it, it can't really
> be changed to, say, bestpractical.com-rt://.
> 
> - Kevin Riggle
>   Best Practical, LLC.
> -- 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Kind Regards,
> > 
> > Gavin Henry.
> > Managing Director.
> > 
> > T +44 (0) 1224 279484
> > M +44 (0) 7930 323266
> > F +44 (0) 1224 742001
> > E ghenry at suretecsystems.com
> > 
> > Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).
> > 
> > http://www.suretecsystems.com/
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Be sure to check out the RT Wiki at http://wiki.bestpractical.com
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>   Kevin Riggle <kevinr at bestpractical.com>
>   Best Practical Solutions, LLC
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