Re: LYNX-DEV Re: News: anywhere vs. NNTP: to-server, eh?
David Woolley (david@djwhome.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:39:34 +0100 (BST)
From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <199708192139.WAA28518@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Re: News: anywhere vs. NNTP: to-server, eh?
To: lynx-dev@sig.net
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:39:34 +0100 (BST)
Cc: asgilman@access.digex.net, uri@bunyip.com
In-Reply-To: <33F87792.825DC165@parc.xerox.com> from "Larry Masinter" at Aug 18, 97 09:25:54 am
>
> What is currently widely deployed is
> news:[//host/]newsgroup
>
> rather than 'nttp:'. So I suggest we just try to write up what people
> are using rather than continuing to push on "nntp:".
I think this is only people using Netscape browsers. Microsoft Interenet
Explorer 3 doesn't understand this particular abuse, and nor do
any of caching proxies available from my office (not that I can find
a caching proxy that understands nntp: either, but at least the reject
it without getting confused).
(MSIE 3 tries to launch Microsoft News, which tries for the default
news server.)
Personally, I think any such interpretation of news:// should be enabled
by an option which defaults to disabled, to just make people aware that the
URL is broken.