# Re: URLs and types: concentrate on FTP

Mitra (mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us)
Fri, 4 Jun 1993 10:01:50 PDT

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    From: mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra)

    Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 10:01:50 PDT

    In-Reply-To:  John Curran <jcurran@nic.near.net>

    To: jcurran@nic.near.net, masinter@parc.xerox.com, uri@bunyip.com

    Subject: Re: URLs and types: concentrate on FTP

    Message-Id:  <9306041001.aa02679@pandora.sf.ca.us>

John , It seems the first thing we need is a format to combine them, then
we can experiment with URformats etc knowing that systems that dont recognize
your descriptor will ignore it gracefully.

I'm not sure what this should look like, my gut feeling goes for
something like.

gopher:path.net//aaa/bbb/ccc:type=image/gif:size=100k

or

<gopher:path.net//aaa/bbb/ccc><type=image/gif><size=100k>

or

urn:isoc::12345:::ABCDE:gopher:path.net//aaa/bbb/ccc:type=image

The tricky thing is handling all the special characters so that this can
be passed unambiguously?

- Mitra

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