Re: Gopher+ and URLs

mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra)

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From: mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 11:17:26 PDT
In-Reply-To:  eostrom@nic.gac.edu (Erik Ostrom)
       "Gopher+ and URLs" (Apr 15,  9:35am)
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Why worry about this Erik - the slashes in gopher are as hierarchical as 
in any other protocol and DO refer to the location in the directory structure.

OTOH - it is possible in the URL spec to define an opaque selector, and I
believe that the gopher one is defined that way.

- Mitra