# Re: Revised Internet-Draft: finger URL

Jared_Rhine@hmc.edu
Fri, 24 Feb 1995 19:34:55 -0500

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    Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 19:34:55 -0500

    Message-Id: <199502250034.TAA01381@aslan.math.hmc.edu>

    From: Jared_Rhine@hmc.edu

    Subject: Re: Revised Internet-Draft: finger URL

LM == Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>

LM> Sorry for weighing in late on this, but my personal opinion after some
LM> consideration is that
LM>
LM> finger://host1.bigstate.edu/someuser
LM>
LM> is preferable to finger:someuser@host1.bigstate.edu

I would prefer this syntax as well. Since the proposal explicitly states
that requests without a host are illegal, we can assume that all requests
must have a host. Given that, it makes since to put that host in the
traditional host section of the URL.

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