Re: Revised Internet-Draft: finger URL from David Robinson on 1995-02-27 (uri@w3.org from February 1995)

From: David Robinson <drtr1@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 17:24 GMT
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Paul Hoffman wrote:
>- How to allow "/W". Again, I think this is very rarely used and would be
>willing to toss it out.

Andrew McRae wrote:
>and something like:
>
>  finger://host2/%2FW%20user
>
>respectively (where "host2" is a FQDN). Or am I missing something?

Wouldn't
   finger://host2/user;W
or
   finger://host2/user;/W
Be more in keeping with the generic URL syntax?

 David Robinson. (drtr1@cam.ac.uk)

Received on Monday, 27 February 1995 12:25:58 UTC