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> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <56710000.999257324@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010830161505.A11705@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20010830161505.A11705@cartman.techsupport.co.uk>
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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 http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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