Re: proxy support doesn't work for `file:...' URLs

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Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 15:19:32 +0200
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On Mon, 2 May 1994, Larry Masinter wrote:
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> 
> I suppose I wouldn't need to do this if there were a supported
> URL localfile:... in all of the browsers; then we could deprecate
> `file:' by just making it equivalent to `ftp:'.
 
	I,  for one,  would rather not.   Maybe I'm anal, 
or maybe I'm just lazy,  but I'd like to keep those terse names. 
Don't deprecate,  fix! 
 
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