Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for url aliases in config files

> On Feb 20, 2008 2:24 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
>> This order of values is definitely the right thing, for the mapping
>> reasons you saw. And I think "aka" is generally used to indicate
>> additional non-canonical names for something with an official name (see,
>> for example, IMDB's usage). I haven't been able to come up with anything
>> better to indicate "this is a name that I will recognize but not use
>> myself".
>
> I think the word you want is "alias", isn't it? I've never really seen
> aka used in a technical sense, whereas alias is used quite often (URL
> aliases, DNS aliases, etc). So:
>
> url.$canonical_name.alias = $local_name.