file: URLs What's the latest sentiment about these things?? I noticed

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Subject: file: URLs What's the latest sentiment about these things??   I noticed
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that they were conspicuously absent from the latest URL draft.  I take
it that was not an accident.

	More specifically, how should proxy gateways handle these??  I
had hacked CERN's 2.16beta to transparently turn these into ftp:
references....this seemed to work well.

	Should I do this again for 2.17, or would I be justified in
asking the providers of information to upgrade their links?

Thanx,
	Danny Padwa
	padwad@psd.gs.com

Speaking just for myself....