Re: FTP URIs - time to document the way browsers really behave?

Alun Jones scripsit:

> Unfortunately, we have the situation that noone obeys
> the RFC, except for a few people starting to implement it, who then
> quickly find out that noone else pays attention to it, either.

I've been accessing my home directory via various versions of Mozilla
for quite a while now without problem:

	ftp://cowan@mercury.ccil.org/blood.txt

retrieves the file blood.txt in my home directory (given the proper
password).

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