From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 31 19:10:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EA837B406; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f812Ab019403; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 22:10:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bicknell) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 22:10:37 -0400 From: Leo Bicknell To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Hroi Sigurdsson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010831221037.A19331@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Leo Bicknell , "Bruce A. Mah" , Hroi Sigurdsson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <56710000.999257324@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20010831154300.B27173@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B902B68.E15DFA3E@asdf.dk> <200109010134.f811Ytc02837@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109010134.f811Ytc02837@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 06:34:55PM -0700 Organization: United Federation of Planets 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 On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 06:34:55PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > People are proposing to do various hacks to existing utilities and > applications without having any real idea of the impact of their ideas, > or even in some cases what semantic sense these hacks have. For what it's worth, my original thought was that {ping,traceroute} utilitites would simply take the "host part" of an URL and do their normal activities. Since that post I've gotten at least 5 other ideas of what might be possible. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message