[9970] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL schemes containing +, -, or .
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hamilton)
Mon May 13 05:31:16 1996
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 May 1996 14:06:59 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:25:35 +0100
From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
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"William F. Hammond" writes:
| Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk> writes:
| > ...
| > Please let me know if your stuff will go gaga
| > when it sees "whois++://" !
|
| Are there browsers that handle any "whois" scheme?
This isn't really a browser thing at the moment, though it might be in
the future. To these eyes, WHOIS++ would be rather more appealing as
the query protocol component of the WWW suite than, (say) LDAP, Z39.50,
or X.500. Hopefully Netscape will "do" LDAP in a sensible way which
makes it useful for more than just White Pages type applications.
What is important is that we there be a way of writing referrals (->
URLs) for WHOIS++ servers in the Common Indexing Protocol - see
draft-ietf-find-cip-00.txt. Better yet if we can do this in such a way
that it doesn't break deployed code, just on the offchance that it
really takes off... ;-)
| As the number of schemes that we want to be a part of the Web
| increases, it becomes increasingly unreasonable not to have
| user-configurable external handler applications for the various
| schemes just as most browsers now permit the user to configure
| external viewing applications by mimetype.
|
| Has anyone actually provided for external handlers?
Chimera ?
| Is anyone thinking about it?
I was just thinking it would be nice to hack this into X Mosaic. Would
be a handy addition to the support it already has for proxying
arbitrary URL schemes.
