eBay links that say Rover in the title ?
Discussion
Ok folks, please help out the PHers that post links in the 'Barge' thread.
When you post a link it says something like -
https:rover.ebay.com..............
Some people get excited thinking they are going to view a classic Rover but it rarely appears.
What does the 'rover' bit do/mean ?
When you post a link it says something like -
https:rover.ebay.com..............
Some people get excited thinking they are going to view a classic Rover but it rarely appears.
What does the 'rover' bit do/mean ?
It's just a subdomain which basically means it's a different website but still connected to ebay.com, usually used to carry out a specific task that you don't necessarily need to know about.
Subdomains are usually used to handle stuff that's shared between multiple websites and services.
For example, Google have accounts.google.com. Whenever you sign into any of Google services, they will all check with accounts.google.com to see if you are who you say you are. It means they don't have to build separate authentication into each and every website and tool they make.
But I'm not a big user of ebay so beyond that I'd be guessing what the rover subdomain is for.
It looks like it could be some kind of routing server to handle all the different ways of accessing the site from different sources e.g. search engines. Ebay seems to have hung on to a lot of old code and systems so it might be a way for them to consolidate things and keep the main site a bit cleaner.
Subdomains are usually used to handle stuff that's shared between multiple websites and services.
For example, Google have accounts.google.com. Whenever you sign into any of Google services, they will all check with accounts.google.com to see if you are who you say you are. It means they don't have to build separate authentication into each and every website and tool they make.
But I'm not a big user of ebay so beyond that I'd be guessing what the rover subdomain is for.
It looks like it could be some kind of routing server to handle all the different ways of accessing the site from different sources e.g. search engines. Ebay seems to have hung on to a lot of old code and systems so it might be a way for them to consolidate things and keep the main site a bit cleaner.
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