In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/04/2006 at 09:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>(Beware of typing "Whitehouse" and expecting to find W's home page.) Some might consider whitehouse.com to be the more reputable of the two. >Conversely, I would not be surprised if some browsers attempt to >interpred FTP URLs. I would be surprised if any current browser *failed* to support the FTP scheme. >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. And it's been that way for a long time. The flip side is that you might have an FTP client that recognizes a URL, but that is *not* part of the FTP specifications. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
