# Re: FTP URL mapping

Ruediger Volk (rv@deins.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
Sun, 06 Mar 1994 16:31:32 +0100

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    To: Mitra <mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us>

    Subject: Re: FTP URL mapping

    In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Mar 1994 20:17:29."

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    Date: Sun, 06 Mar 1994 16:31:32 +0100

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    From: Ruediger Volk <rv@deins.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

Mitra commented on ...
> Mark wrote ..
> >
> > A real problem with the current ftp URL is that it is quite ambiguous.
> > A lot of the ambiguity is not necessary. At the time the URL is being created
> > it's creator generally knows things like whether to fetch in binary or text
> > mode, whether the item being referred to is a document or a directory, etc.
...
>
> Mark - just to be clear, I'm in favour of including whether its
> directory, text or binary, the latter two are impossible to derive
> exactly with even the brightest of clients.
I also know at least one operating system where the same name can be
both an inner node of the file naming tree (so you can use it like a
directory name on other OS) and the name of a regular file at the SAME time.

Ruediger

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