From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 4 9:15:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.newgold.net (aphex.newgold.net [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47D0937B408 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 97163 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Sep 2001 16:15:34 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:15:34 +0000 From: Joseph Mallett To: Charlie Root Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010904161534.A97071@NewGold.NET> References: <00000925020cf507d1@[192.168.1.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Organisation: New Gold Technology Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What strikes me in this thread is that a lot of people are stupid and lazy and want FreeBSD's kernel (or libc) to do stupid things with URLs the same way you can throw a URL anywhere in Windows and have it mean something. Here's some news for you: It shouldn't, and probably won't, happen. If you really want something that insane and obscene and that much of a bastardisation of EVERYTHING networking-related, check in with the BASH people and do it on the shell level. If you're really lazy and want to be able to do: telnet smtp://localhost I suggest you look into this relatively new invention called '/etc/services' and read some manual pages. You'll find you can do something quite similar, and much saner. /joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message