- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 07:22:40 PDT
- To: pflynn@curia.ucc.ie
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
You asked (on html-wg, not actually the right forum, thus the redirect): > BTW, where/how does one register new URL `scheme' names? A couple of > people have asked me if iphone://foobar or cuseeme://blort would ever > become a reality. Right now, the URI working group is suggesting that people write internet drafts describing their new URL schemes and discuss them on the URI mailing list (uri@bunyip.com). Eventually the URI group needs to come up with a better registration procedure; if you have a suggestion for such a registration procedure, please make it on the URI mailing list. There was quite a bit of discussion on the 'mailserver' URL, for example. For some kinds of resources, it isn't reasonable to pack everything needed to access the resource into a single URL-like string; in those cases, the way one usually handles this is to make a link (http: for example) to a resource whose mime-type is a sesson description. You retrieve the session description object, and then launch (via .mailcap) the helper application that interprets the session description by initiating the session. I think this is a difficult design choice. Currently, most web browsers are more flexible about adding more media types than they are about adding new URL schemes.
Received on Sunday, 9 April 1995 10:23:08 UTC