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I wish ... (ftp: and file:)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Troth)
Mon Nov 7 21:51:55 1994
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 03:02:22 +0100
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From: Rick Troth <TROTH@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
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I wish that client authors would use different logic for file:
and ftp: type URLs. Some (most? all? the library?) are using the same
logic for both of these. It's a shame. Intuitively,
ftp://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/path/path/file
works for both Anonymous FTP and non-Anonymous FTP, and
file:/path/path/file
refers to a locally resident object.
Then we don't need an explicit anon-ftp: URL type.
--
Rick Troth, <rmtroth@aol.com>, <troth@ua1vm.ua.edu>, Houston, Texas, USA
