- From: Reed Wade <wade@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 23:59:30 -0500
- To: ietf-lists@proper.com (Paul Hoffman)
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com, Peter N Lewis <peter@mail.peter.com.au>, wade@cs.utk.edu
I suggested this last august or so but never wrote it up in RFC style form. Now I can't find my notes on the subject (I think we discussed it on the www-talk list.) Two points to consider- 1. always interpret the result as plain text; we basically decided that allowing embedded html and friends was just plain silly, tho tempting 2. don't forget to support the /W option (sec 2.5.4 of RFC1288) As to finger:user@host or finger://user@host -- Don't forget that there may be 2 hosts involved, the @host part and the host you actually connect to, they needn't be the same. So, you may want- finger://host1/[W/]user[@host2] As to security, don't allow ports other than the default and don't transmit CR's or LF's. -reed I guess I better get back on that snmp url also... ----- University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dept of Computer Science Netlib Development Group 'I was kidding,' says bomb suspect wade@cs.utk.edu -- <URL:http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/ReedWade.html>
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