Message-Id: <9403071623.AA02094@expresso.bunyip.com>
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 11:23:38 -0500
In-Reply-To: Mitra's message as of Mar 5, 20:17
To: Mitra <mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us>,
"Mark P. McCahill" <mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: FTP URL mapping
[ You wrote: ]
. . .
> 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.
I think you guys are actually prett close to agreement. I
don't think the issue is whether there's a CD command in
the FTP URL, but whether it is clear when you have to CD
to fetch a file. The rest is encoding and all we need is to
agree on the one true way and we're done.
I might add that in my mind it is perfectly acceptable
that a valid URL for one site doesn't include the CD token
and that another site does. As I posted last week, that's
what distinguishes URLs from URNs and illustrates their
transient nature. All I want is something that tells me
unambiguously what to do to access the object. I'll take
it from there.
- peterd
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