- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 12:55:07 PST
- To: ietf-lists@proper.com
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
> - How to allow > finger:user@usershost@host1@host2 Can't this be done with: finger://host2/user@usershost@host1 Don't confuse the common Unix command line interface with the protocol. > - How to allow "/W". Again, I think this is very rarely used and would be > willing to toss it out. Can't this be done with: finger://host//W or finger://host//W%20user As for serving other ports, if you allow it, add the same security warnings that were there for gopher. I think the justification that makes me think this might be useful is the possibility of using 'finger:' URLs for whois++.
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