[5342] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: finger url, copyright caches (again)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reed Wade)
Thu Aug 25 18:00:23 1994
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 23:41:35 +0200
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From: Reed Wade <wade@cs.utk.edu>
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>The gopher: hack does. The gopher protocol is a complete superset
>of the finger protocol. (well... I haven't researched it carefully,
>but the common "finger foo@bar" is expressible as a gopher URL).
yes, the gopher hack is functionally equivalent to plain
finger. (The end of line char(s) might be different but there's
no missing functionality.)
I shouldn't bring this up because I think it's a lousy idea but
you could always have a generic tcp url that encoded all the
interactions required for an arbitrary protocol. It'd probably get
kinda long tho...
(bty, that pizza thing don't work for me)
-reed
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