From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 30 8:27:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tepid.osl.fast.no (tepid.osl.fast.no [213.188.9.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0855337B401 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:27:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raw@fast.no) Received: from raw.grenland.fast.no (fw-oslo.fast.no [213.188.9.129]) by tepid.osl.fast.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA70687; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:27:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from raw@fast.no) Received: (from raw@localhost) by raw.grenland.fast.no (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7UFR0Y88730; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:27:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from raw) From: Raymond Wiker MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15246.23364.719158.606166@raw.grenland.fast.no> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:27:00 +0200 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. In-Reply-To: <20010830161505.A11705@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20010830161505.A11705@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 Ceri writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:10:18AM -0400, Leo Bicknell said: > > > > I ran into a pair of all too common annoyances this morning that > > got me thinking. Via the magic of cut and paste I ended up with > > the following two sorts of command lines: > > > > mutt mailto:bicknell@ufp.org > > traceroute http://www.ufp.org/ > > Please don't do this. > FreeBSD is not a web browser. That's a pretty silly argument. There are already several commands that are part of FreeBSD, and use either URI syntax or something similar. E.g, mount some.server:/usr/src /usr/src scp user@some.server:file . fetch http://some.server/file Having a standard library that can pick apart such addresses is going to make parsing easier, and it may also make the system slightly easier to use (by enforcing a single syntax across all the commands that require this sort of functionality). Whether it is a reasonable use of developer time is a completely different matter. FWIW, the Symbolics Lisp Machines had something similar to this integrated at the file system layer - it was possible to access (edit, even) files through FTP, NFS, ChaosNet (and other) protocols without explicitly mounting file systems. //Raymond. -- Raymond Wiker Raymond.Wiker@fast.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message