# Re: FTP syntax

yandros@MIT.EDU
Tue, 8 Mar 94 19:11:24 GMT

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    From: yandros@MIT.EDU

    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 19:11:24 GMT

    Message-Id: <9403081911.AA11385@infocalypse.MIT.EDU>

    To: hoymand@joe.uwex.edu

    In-Reply-To: <9403081452.AA26711@joe.uwex.edu> (hoymand@joe.uwex.edu)

    Subject: Re: FTP syntax

>> I also think we could put it on the other end e.g.
>>
>> <url:ftp://ftp.path.net/one/two/three:binary>
>>
>> So that it's absence would indicate an old-stype URL, and that the
>> client was on its own at guessing what it was.

Are we sure the ':' is not a legal selector character? What about systems
where disks are noted with ':', is this going to pose a problem?

`:' is the Macintosh `directory' seperator (much as I dislike it), and
could cause problems. Perhaps it would be better to use the `?'
syntax, and match the other URLs? That would involve client mods,
which Mitra's excellent suggestion doesn't, but it would allow for
expansion along the same lines as the forms support in some clients,
and the code for that is already written...

<a href="http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/yandros.html">chad</a>

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