- From: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:40:58 +0100
- To: "uri@w3.org" <uri@w3.org>
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:51:29 +0100, Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
> nntpURL = "nntp" ":" news-server newsgroup-name "/" range
> news-server = "//" server "/"
> range = article-number ["-" [article-number]]
> article-number = 1*DIGIT
>
> The syntax for <range> is taken from draft-ietf-nntpext-base-21.txt, and
> its semantics can probably be taken from there as well (but we still
> have to decide what the URL is supposed to return if there is more than
> just an article-number).
On further thought, <range> should be optional:
nntpURL = "nntp" ":" news-server newsgroup-name [ "/" range ]
which means that
news://some-host/comp.foo
and
nntp://some-host/comp.foo
will mean the same thing (i.e. "please put me into that group and show me
a list of all available articles"). If <range> is present, it means the
same, except restrict the list to the given range, but if <range> is just
a single <article-number> then it may as well go further and retrieve the
actual article. Note that this is the normal way in which <range> gets
used in NNTP commands.
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