[Developers] changes to the sandbox environment

[Tom Morris]

Hi Michael.  Thanks for the head up.  As regards the host name, I
switched to the hyphenated version after being informed that the
dotted version was unreliable vis a vis cookies, but for any geo
related work, I've had to switch back to the dotted version (ie
sandbox.freebox.com) to get the Google Maps to work.

Do you think you guys could apply for a second map key so that maps
will work with sandbox-freebase.com?  It's a pain to have to keep
switching back and forth.

Tom

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Michael Masouras <michael at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As part of our effort to make new code and features available more
> quickly, we will be making more heavy use of our sandbox environment.
> This will mainly affect user-facing features (html pages) rather than
> APIs. If you see these changes affecting your use of that environment,
> please let us know through this mailing list.
>
> We have also set-up a new domain name: http://www.sandbox-
> freebase.com , that will isolate it better from our production
> environment (mainly for cookie-related issues). We 'd like to use this
> URL going forward, but we do not intend to eliminate
> sandbox.freebase.com yet, so any software you have that uses the old
> URL will still work for quite some time. However, this is a very good
> time to switch to the new URL and give us any feedback if something
> doesn't work for you.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael