Re: URIs for the standard output and input streams

Noah Slater wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:31:27AM +0000, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>> win on the cost basis ... one might want to define the std scheme as 
>> extensible by future revision, so that if the future suggests, for example, 
>> the use of file descriptors in URIs we might later get
> 
> I disagree, there is no reason that I can see why you should invent a
> new scheme for this when plain old HTTP will do.
> 

I wasn't particularly wanting to advocate a new scheme, just adding by 
2p worth, but HTTP seems inappropriate here.

stdin, stdout and stderr are OS provided protocols, and not the network 
protocol HTTP - hence an HTTP uri seems wholly inappropriate.

While say the geoloc vs http argument has merits on both sides - the 
"HTTP is the only necessary protocol" argument is taken to absurdity with

http://purl.org/std/in

to mean some completely different protocol for accessing representations 
of the resource.

Jeremy

Received on Tuesday, 15 January 2008 11:53:19 UTC