Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 12:54:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Gamiel <kgamiel@vinca.cnidr.org>
Subject: Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...
To: Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9310171652.AA12349@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9310171203.A10702-b100000@vinca.cnidr.org>
On Sun, 17 Oct 1993, Simon E Spero wrote:
> What's this we, white-man? :)
Let it be known that Simon _is writing_ the PDU library we're using. Feel
better? :-)
> If we're going to break existing code for no good reason then we might as
> well bring along some jars to the meeting so at least we can get some cash
> out of the experience.
No good reason? Do you want your parser to have to know _every_ protocol
tag there is rather than just look for URL:? As protocols x,y,z,... begin
using URLs do you want to rewrite your parser every time? Its obviously
not valid to say "I'll just ignore the ones I don't know" because it is
useful to cache _all_ urls at times, not just the ones you know how to
deal with. A directory service is the obvious example of that. As a
directory service I want to find all URLs in the world and let you search
them and you can keep the ones _you_ know how to deal with.
Kevin
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