On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 05:17:04PM +0000, Steve Holme wrote: > I have done a little research and couldn't really find anything... except > RFC2384: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2384 > > This specifies a format for URL based connection strings (including > authentication) for pop3 but not message manipulation - similar to mutt I > guess.
Another possibility is to allow a syntax similar to the IMAP URL scheme (RFC 5092). But I looked at that and the IMAP URLs are all about accessing messages, not manipulating them. How about this instead: rather than embedding operations into the URL itself, why not use the "--quote" option, or even the "--request" option to specify them? That's analagous to how this would be done for HTTP, FTP and SFTP; to delete a file on those, you'd use -X DELETE, -Q DELE X and -Q rm X, respectively. That actually seems more natural to me than inventing a URL scheme to do the same. >>> Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
