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Finger URL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reed Wade)
Sun Aug 21 01:48:07 1994
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 1994 07:31:22 +0200
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From: wade@cs.utk.edu (Reed Wade)
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It seems worthwhile to have a Finger URL, comments please.
-Reed Wade
Finger URL
finger://<hostport>/[<type>/]<user>
examples:
finger://cs.utk.edu/text%2fhtml/info
finger://cs.utk.edu/wade
hostport
what you think it means
type
If the type field is present it refers to a MIME content type.
The result of the finger lookup should return data of this type.
Note that /'s must be escaped.
If type is ommited it defaults to text/plain but with one
difference: <UR?:xxx>'s found in the text stream should be
made selectable by WWW browsers. If this feature is not desired,
text/plain should be indicated explicitly.
user
The data for the finger lookup. Encoded NEWLINES are not permitted.
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