On Thu, 4 May 2006 06:54:48 -0700, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The first definition I found was "An acronym for "Uniform Resource Locator," > this is the address of a resource on the Internet." Would not FTP hosts > qualify as "a resource on the Internet"? > > See also http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt > Indeed. But Tisler's constructs failed to meet the given syntax by lacking a scheme part.
Nowadays browsers confuse the issue by attempting to complete typed URL fragments by any combination of the following: o Prefix "http://"; o Prefix "www." o suffix ".com" (or ".org", ".net"., ".edu", ".gov", ...) (Beware of typing "Whitehouse" and expecting to find W's home page.) Conversely, I would not be surprised if some browsers attempt to interpred FTP URLs. I have sometimes in lists such as this used a FTP URL as a shorthand notation for host + path. E.g.: ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/s390. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
