- From: Paul Hoffman <ietf-lists@proper.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 09:00:53 -0700
- To: uri@bunyip.com
>If the host is required, then why make yet another syntax that must parsed ? >I favor the more canonical, finger://host[:port]/blah I think we're overusing "host" here. For those of us with shell accounts on a Unix system, the <query> part of "finger:<query>" is the same as the argument we would give to the "finger" command at the shell. If this is unclear from the examples in the I-D, I'd love to have better ones. >Also, in the other scheme, how would one specify a non-standard port ? You don't. As I said in the I-D, RFC 1288 specifies only one port, and so does this URL. --Paul Hoffman --Proper Publishing
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