Ben Schwartz <[email protected]> writes: > Conversely, I think an alternate URI-scheme is actually _more_ likely to have > good compatibility with non-alt-aware software.
First, for the record: I think a URI approach is a far better solution. And I'm trying to guess at the motivations of others not using it (which I probably shouldn't do; but I will point out that all the other systems aren't proposing alternate-URI schemes but I'm sure at least some of them have thought about it. If you're one of those, please speak up!) I will note that of all my binaries in /usr/bin on my random linux system, 199 of them have references to either gethostbyname or getaddrinfo. It may be that you could mess with the base C library that implements those to accept a URI instead (yay), but I think it may be harder to fix all the UIs on top of it that may be doing regexp matches to ensure the user input is valid before accepting a submit button. Maybe. Maybe not. It feels like a hope, not an assured solution. Even though it's the *right* thing to do. -- Wes Hardaker USC/ISI _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
