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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:14:17 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001214131417.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKOEEJMHAA.davids@webmaster.com>

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On 14-Dec-00 David Schwartz wrote:
>       Please tell me this isn't a case where if the host is 'ftp.foo.com', we
>  assume we're supposed to be using FTP and if it's 'www.foo.com', we assume
>  we should be using HTTP. I really hope that's not what you're talking about.
>  
>       When my browser first started doing this, it bugged the hell out of me.

Well.. what else is it going to do? Assume one or the other?

Personally since at least Netscape and IE do this it is expected behaviour.

If you want to be 100% sure what it's doing, specify the scheme explicitly.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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