Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:15:09 -0400 From: Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com> To: Steve Roome <stephen_roome@yahoo.com> Cc: Keith Stevenson <keith.stevenson@louisville.edu>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <00000e180511ee07d1@[192.168.1.4]> References: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20010830111708.A20961@osaka.louisville.edu> <20010830232109.A1077@dylan.home>
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Steve Roome wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:17:08AM -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote:
> > Ick. If I wanted this kind of integration I would run Windows, KDE, or GNOME
> > instead of my nice, stable, predictable, lightweight desktop environment.
>
> This entire email is very IMHO
>
> Why? a URI is by name a "Uniform Resource Locator", the standard idea
> being that anything can be referenced by using a uniform system.
>
> I mean other than the fact that it might look ugly, or not seem like a
> good idea, it's become a fairly standard way of addressing things.
>
> Anyway, how else would you wish to describe something that can quite
> legibly define a particular protocol to use on a particular port of a
> machine and furthermore can give extra information.
I too have been hoping for (and building internal tools) that work
this way. I really wish you could just do:
open("nfs://server.name.dom/directory/file.txt")
and have it work. That would be nice. (Replace the above with
ftp: or http: or whatever other protocol would provide read and/or write
access.)
Anyway, I don't see it happening quickly but I don't see it as a bad thing
and I would guess that it will eventually get to that point. (The network
includes your local machine so why not)
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