# Re: URLs -- the ftp case

Steve Putz (putz@parc.xerox.com)
Fri, 29 Oct 1993 12:09:27 PDT

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    From: Steve Putz <putz@parc.xerox.com>

    To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch

    Subject: Re: URLs -- the ftp case

    Message-Id: <93Oct29.120929pdt.2445@spoggles.parc.xerox.com>

    Date: 	Fri, 29 Oct 1993 12:09:27 PDT

> Maybe we would need 4 flags:
>
> - text file
> - binary file
> - directory
> - dunno yet but see what you can do (cuurent state)
>
>
> This is not a suggestion.
>
> Tim

Why not? I suggest that WWW clients be modified to accept the following URL types:

ftpt: (text retrieval)
ftpb: (binary retrieval)
ftpd: (directory listing)
ftp: (same as now -- client guesses)

and after most of the clients are upgraded we can start using the new types.

-- Steve Putz

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