# Re: Uniform Resource Names - almost draft

Patrik Faltstrom (paf@nada.kth.se)
Thu, 13 Oct 1994 07:10:21 +0100

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    Message-Id: <aac27ee904021004a02d@[130.237.222.114]>

    Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 07:10:21 +0100

    To: mitra@path.net (Mitra), Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>

    From: paf@nada.kth.se (Patrik Faltstrom)

    Subject: Re: Uniform Resource Names - almost draft

At 2:07 PM 10/12/94, Martin Hamilton wrote:
>
> % 220-whois++ server cuppat, LUT mini_whois++ 1.0
> % 220-only understands handle and urn lookups!!
> % 220 your mileage may vary
> !urn:iana:rfc:822
> % 200 command ok
> # FULL 1
> # URN cuppat:rfc822
> URN:IANA:rfc:822
> URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc822.txt
> URL:ftp://nis.nsf.net/internet/documents/rfc/rfc822.txt
> URL:ftp://nisc.jvnc.net/RFC822.TXT.1
> URL:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc822.txt
> URL:ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/info/rfc/rfc822.txt.Z
> URL:ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc822.txt.Z
> URL:ftp://ftp.concert.net/rfc/rfc822.txt
> URL:ftp://ftp.sesqui.net/pub/rfc/rfc822.txt
> # END
> % 226 transfer complete
> % 203 toodle pip
>
>Just a thought!
>
>Martin

There is some syntactic things here which is wrong according to the
whois++ spec, the query:

!urn:iana:rfc:822

First of all, the shortwriting '!' has been removed from the whois++
vocabulary, so it is not accepted anymore. You must explicitly
write out the word "handle=".

Also, the character ':' is in Whois++ a delimiter between the
search values and the global constraints, such as "hold" which
is used for holding a connection, or "search=regexp" which is
made to specify search with regular expressions.

According to the spec, the search should be:

handle=urn\:iana\:rfc\:822

or

handle="urn:iana:rfc:822"

i.e. you must quote the ':'.

/paf

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