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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: misc/16938: FTP does not fully parse ftp:// URLs 
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:00:02 PST, Garrett Wollman wrote:

>  The fact that ftp(1) knows anything at all about URIs is a bug
>  (imported from another *BSD).

I don't agree.  I understand your reservations about HTTP support in
ftp(1), but you underestimate the usefulness of URI syntax for
interactive use:

	(unset ftp_proxy; ftp ftp://ftp.example.com/some/path/)

While you may wish to remove HTTP support from ftp(1), URI handling is a
good thing and is worth fixing.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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