Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 20:17:29 -800 (PDT)
From: Mitra <mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us>
Subject: Re: FTP URL mapping
To: "Mark P. McCahill" <mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9403050416.AA13981@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9403052003.A21096-0100000@pandora.sf.ca.us>
Mark wrote ..
>
> A real problem with the current ftp URL is that it is quite ambiguous.
> A lot of the ambiguity is not necessary. At the time the URL is being created
> it's creator generally knows things like whether to fetch in binary or text
> mode, whether the item being referred to is a document or a directory, etc.
> Since you generally know this information at the time of creating the URL, it
> would be nice if the URL syntax would allow for explicitly stating this sort
> of information.
Mark - just to be clear, I'm in favour of including whether its
directory, text or binary, the latter two are impossible to derive
exactly with even the brightest of clients. I'm only against complicated
directions like cd to here, cd o there, retrieve that.
- Mitra