# what good is a URL without type information?

Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Sat, 23 Oct 93 14:00:31 -0700

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    Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 14:00:31 -0700

    From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)

    Message-Id: <9310232100.AA16318@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>

    To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>

    Subject: what good is a URL without type information?

    In-Reply-To: <93Oct23.032838pdt.2795@golden.parc.xerox.com>

Larry Masinter writes:
> I hear that people want to make a 'location' pure by leaving out the
> type information, (and then change WWW to 'start passing
> metainformation around along with the URL) but then, what applications
> *would* use URLs all by themselves?

Applications that *like* determining types by file extension :-).

Marc

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