# Open a remote webpage
$http = open http "http://www.perl.com/", GET;
^
1) The URL says that it's a http resource, so why do we have
to tell open to use a http handler?
a) Allows custom handlers:
open myhttp
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=head1 TITLE
Modify open() to support FileObjects and Extensibility
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 04 Aug 2000
Last-Modified: 11 Aug 2000
Version: 3
Mailing List: [EMAIL
[cc'ed on internals as FYI]
=item 36 (v1): Structured Internal Representation of Filenames
I think this should be discussed a good amount. I think URIs are cool,
but too much trouble for simple stuff. I don't want to have to write
"file:///etc/motd" everytime I want to address a file. Too
