Posted by cwdjrxyz on 10/05/05 11:45

frederick wrote:
> I've just come across a link to this odd-looking URL:
> http://www.prbm.com/interest/i.htm?manuscripts-d-f.shtml~main
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to use of the "~main" at the end?

It appears that you have received the correct answer. Actually there
are many odd-looking URLs, and many of these are associated with media.
If you go to the new Google video service and examine how they link to
various free video files, their special Google player, etc, you will
find many unusual URLs used as well as a special extension for the
Google player. Also there are some very long ones that run over 2 or 3
lines. Also when you call a streaming media file on a streaming Real or
Windows Media server you often use a URL structure not used elsewhere.
As one example, when you are using a recent Real Player to display a
SMIL page, you code for a progressive download video, image, music, etc
may start with either the usual http://... or chttp//... . Using the
"c" at the start of the url tells the Real player to cache what you
called in a special Real player cache so that it does not have to be
reloaded at a second pass.

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