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Re: Waiting for HTML+ for executing LOCAL (serverless) scripts??

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Tue Aug 2 14:15:18 1994

Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 20:11:03 +0200
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From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
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I think 

    x-exec://programname/foo/bar/baz?blort

is a very poor choice for URL syntax. I'm hoping that the initial "//"
will be used by URL schemes to denote DNS A-record fully qualified
domain names. (E.g., so that, if you know that mtv.com is now known as
adam-curry.org, you can uniformly modify URLs scheme://mtv.com/ to
point at the new host name.)

In this particular case, there is absolutely no reason to use //. 
How about just

    x-exec:progname;foo;bar;baz


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