ftp://host.dom:/path

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Thu, 21 Jul 1994 14:35:05 PDT

To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: ftp://host.dom:/path
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Message-Id: <94Jul21.143511pdt.2760@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 14:35:05 PDT

Is ftp://host.dom:/path a legal URL?

I got a bug report from a user trying to access:

ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/people/crista/motorola.ps

Is the : without a port illegal?

[[ Actually, the original URL was:

file://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/people/christa/motorola.ps

which gets coerced into 'ftp:' by the library currently. ]]