From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Message-Id: <199306041422.AA01666@oit.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: URLs and types: concentrate on FTP
To: uri@bunyip.com
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 10:22:45 EDT
Tim Berners-Lee said this:
> This is the crux: Where do 99.9% of FTP URLs actually come from?
> FTP directory listings. And FTP directory listings don't have type
> information. The URLs in Warchie come from Archie which comes from
> FTP directories. The rules of the FTP world are, you have to guess
> the type. We can't change the rules at this stage.
> If you do in fact have a local convention of which suffixes
> corresepond to which content-types, then you can tell your HTTP
> server about it. But your FTP server won't want to know.
Wasn't this what IAFA was supposed to solve? That way Archie gives back
not only the URL but the metainformation it got from the IAFA template
associated with that entry.
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