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URL schemes containing +, -, or .
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hamilton)
Thu May 9 04:19:58 1996
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 09:10:39 +0100
From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
I have an Internet Draft (draft-hamilton-whois-url-00.txt) which
specifies a URL format for the WHOIS++ protocol using the scheme
"whois." Now, it's been suggested that there really ought to be
separate schemes for the old WHOIS protocol, WHOIS++, and RWhois
- defined by (respectively) RFCs 954, 1835 and 1714.
Question: the obvious choice for WHOIS++ would be "whois++", but
would this blow up any code ? e.g. proxy servers, HTML editors,
and web crawlers. Please let me know if your stuff will go gaga
when it sees "whois++://" !
According to RFC 1738...
Scheme names consist of a sequence of characters. The lower case
letters "a"--"z", digits, and the characters plus ("+"), period
("."), and hyphen ("-") are allowed. For resiliency, programs
interpreting URLs should treat upper case letters as equivalent to
lower case in scheme names (e.g., allow "HTTP" as well as "http").
Toodle pip!
Martin
