Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

[Ian Clarke]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:05:16PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> >> I have not heard a single example of this.  If true, then it should be
> >> considered, and the MSK protocol may even need to be modified, but it
> really
> >> doesn't mean that we should convert to your .free protocol.
> >>
> >Try wget, it screws up the URLs exactly like this.
> Also, about half the site-ripper tools listed on the Tucows shareware site
> do this as well.
> A specific example is one that (was) my favourite - Offline Explorer.

If this is true, then we should consider either:

a) Contacting the authors of these systems to point out the bug, or
b) Modifiying the MSK protocol in a backwards compatable manner which
   addresses this problem.

Ian.

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