[Lon-capa-dev] Re: [Lon-capa-msu] dashes in domain names and lonIds?

[Scott Harrison]

Dear Gerd:

My recollection was that, among many
other incredible things happening,
we tried dashes in Zimbabwe, and it
didn't work.  I grepped through the hobbes
mail archives, but can't find the e-mail,
so it must have been through telephone or
non-listserv e-mail that Guy and I figured this out.

I will contact Robert at Halle about this
then.

Shall I add
<blink><h1>No non-alphanumeric lonDefDomain or
lonHostID values</h1></blink>

to the beginning of
all pages of install.lon-capa.org? :)

Regards,
Scott

Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> 
> Scott,
> 
> I do not know - this has never ever been tested. If it does not work, it
> can screw up things really bad for EVERYBODY in the network.
> 
> So: No, only alphanumeric characters are allowed in domain names and
> lonIds.
> 
> NO dashes or other specials chars, not even "_" - how's that for playing
> it safe? Please do!
> 
> - Gerd.
> 
> Scott Harrison wrote:
> 
> > Dear Anybody:
> >
> > Are dashes allowed in domain names and/or lonIds,
> > or only alphanumeric characters?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Scott
> >
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