Message-Id: <9310172110.AA12648@rs042.scic.intel.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 14:06:45 -0800
To: Kevin Gamiel <kgamiel@vinca.cnidr.org>
From: kevin@scic.intel.com (Kevin Altis)
Subject: Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs (correction)
>detecting the URLs even for a human reader. What you have to look for now
>is :// then you treat what's before the colon as the scheme type (ftp,
>gopher, http, news not nntp) and what's after the last slash as the rest of
>the locator. If we have some method of bracketing the URL such as < and >
>which I'm in favor of, then the URL: prefix still doesn't do you any good,
>since you'll still be looking for the brackets and the ://.
I should have been more specific above, since :// is used for Internet
protocols, but the "news" oddball URL doesn't use :// and the generic URL
form doesn't require ://.
ka