From: mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra)
Subject: FTP syntax
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 20:30:58 GMT
Message-Id: <CMBABn.Kx@pandora.sf.ca.us>
If Alan has stated the consensus correctly on this, then we are adding
two mandatory fields to the FTP URL, I'd like us to consider the syntax
so as to avoid breaking existing URL's unneccessarily.
I think the two fields {directory,file} and {binary,text,tenex} are
orthogonal, and could easaily be combined into one
{directory,file,binary,text,tenex}
I also think we could put it on the other end e.g.
<url:ftp://ftp.path.net/one/two/three:binary>
So that it's absence would indicate an old-stype URL, and that the
client was on its own at guessing what it was.
- Mitra