Re: About spaces in URL's and such.

Dave Schweisguth (dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu)
Fri, 1 Dec 1995 18:54:08 -0500 (EST)

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Matt Messina writes:
> I'm not been a big fan of <URL:(url)>. If it looks like:
>
> (scheme)://(something)
>
> of course it's a URL, so why have the word "URL" up front? It's like
> writing "English: I went to the store." But the IETF URI people disagree,
> so I'll let it go.

I didn't start using ftp://host/path instead of host:/path until the newer
form was turning up daily in non-WWW-junkie fora. I'm inclined to do the same
with <URL:>. (I really dislike the double colon in
<URL:protocol://host/path>, to say nothing of the extra typing.) I'm talking
here about what I put into FAQs and mail and news; standards, of course, are
standards, and I'll salute as fast as anyone if the flag actually reaches the
top of the pole.

Happily, it's just as easy for one's automated parser to recognize a
barenaked URL as it is for one's eyeballs to do so, and having the extra
frills around the edges doesn't make it any less easy. Clothing-optional
URLs for me!

Cheers,

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