I like `URL:'

tomas@cae.wisc.edu
Fri, 9 Dec 94 17:18:41 CST

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I use a URL header named "URL:" in my FAQ aux. header.
"URL:" gets my vote as reference header because it can specify more
than one format, that is, it is more general than "HTTP:" or "FTP:".
Also, the Ohio State FAQ->HTML parser handles it _today_.

> From: Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>
> To: tomas@cae.wisc.edu
> Subject: Re: Auxiliary header for HTML (was "Re: The FAQ system approaches
> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 9 Dec 94 16:37:41 CST
> Message-Id: <CMM.0.90.4.787014406.twpierce@quads.uchicago.edu>
>
> Would you send your comments to faq-maintainers as well?
> I'd like everyone to see this, because I think "URL" is the
> ideal name for the header as well. :-)

Okay.

>
> > >
> > > Joe Sewell said:
> > >
> > > > I like the idea. Actually, having a "Longer-Version-At" might be good as
> > > > well as an "HTTP-Version-At" ... not all HTTP versions are necessarily
> > > > longer versions. :) Or the "See-Also" or "More-Info" ideas another list
> > > > subscriber mentioned.
> > >
> > > It would be a good idea to look into current work in news
> > > specifications before we start defining new headers.
> > > "See-Also" is already reserved for a different purpose in
> > > Henry Spencer's Son-of-1036 draft (<ftp://ftp.zoo.toronto.edu/pub/news.txt.Z>
> > > or <ftp://ftp.zoo.toronto.edu/pub/news.ps.Z>).
> > >
> > > I don't see why "URL" shouldn't work; like another poster, I
> > > don't know of any application that is already using this or
> > > any work that would preclude it. It certainly is an
> > > intuitive use of a "URL" header.
> >
> > I have been using URL: as a header in the auxilliary header part of my FAQ:
> >
> > ---
> > Archive-name: music/ska-faq/part1
> > Last-modified: $Date: 94/12/09 14:56:16 $
> > Version: $Revision: 3.4 $
> > Part: 1 of 3
> > URL: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/music/ska-faq/part1
> > URL: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/music/ska-faq/top.html
> > --
> >
> > These URL's get converted nicely at Ohio State and work just fine.
> >
> > URL: seemed so intuitive, I just went and used it.
> >

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