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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:28:44 +0100
From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
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Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive.
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--On Thursday, August 30, 2001 16:15:05 +0100 Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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.

A URI is a Universial Resource Indicator, it's not a web browser address.

On the other hand, what exactly is http://www.ufp.org supposed to be useful
for when www.ufp.org is the same thing.

What would happen if I did mutt http://www.ufp.org ?

Accepting URI's instead of hostnames isn't necessarily something I'd be
against but there has to be a point to it.


Paul Richards
FreeBSD Services Ltd
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