LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread jduncan
Does anybody know if LWP::Simple allow for un@pw:url convention? --james. PGP signature

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread jduncan
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:38:41PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if LWP::Simple allow for un@pw:url convention? oops un:pw@url -- James A. Duncan W: www.fotango.com P: +44 207 251 7021 F: +44 207 608 3592 PGP signature

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread Philip Newton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if LWP::Simple allow for un@pw:url convention? For FTP URLs? Or HTTP URLs? Or what? For FTP URLs: don't know. For HTTP URLs: no such thing. (NB: just because MSIE or insert browser of choice parses such URLs doesn't mean they exist in any standard

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread Robin Houston
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:38:41PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if LWP::Simple allow for un@pw:url convention? Yes it does. Wouldn't it have been quicker to try it than to write that message? ;-) .robin. -- Flee to me, remote elf!

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:44:30PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: For FTP URLs: don't know. For HTTP URLs: no such thing. Technically you're right. LWP does support it though. And so does every other user agent in the universe, pretty much; so you'd

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread jduncan
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:50:31PM +, Robin Houston wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:38:41PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if LWP::Simple allow for un@pw:url convention? Yes it does. Wouldn't it have been quicker to try it than to write that message? ;-) Well

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Houston wrote: And so does every other user agent in the universe, pretty much; so you'd have to be a pretty severe standards pedant to say there was no such thing ;-) Well, isn't being precise part of being a programmer? "Pedantic" is basically just "precise", only a little more

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread Robin Houston
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: Well, isn't being precise part of being a programmer? "Pedantic" is basically just "precise", only a little more extreme. But "you can't just make sh*t up and expect the computer to understand what you want, Retardo!"[1] --

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote: Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote: And so does every other user agent in the universe, pretty much; so you'd have to be a pretty severe standards pedant to say there was no such thing ;-) Lynx doesn't.