From: mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 10:01:50 PDT
In-Reply-To: John Curran <jcurran@nic.near.net>
To: jcurran@nic.near.net, masinter@parc.xerox.com, uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: URLs and types: concentrate on FTP
Message-Id: <9306041001.aa02679@pandora.sf.ca.us>
John , It seems the first thing we need is a format to combine them, then
we can experiment with URformats etc knowing that systems that dont recognize
your descriptor will ignore it gracefully.
I'm not sure what this should look like, my gut feeling goes for
something like.
gopher:path.net//aaa/bbb/ccc:type=image/gif:size=100k
or
<gopher:path.net//aaa/bbb/ccc><type=image/gif><size=100k>
or
urn:isoc::12345:::ABCDE:gopher:path.net//aaa/bbb/ccc:type=image
The tricky thing is handling all the special characters so that this can
be passed unambiguously?
- Mitra