Re: Proposal: clients whould punt to http://host on unknown protocol

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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 00:08:00 +0200
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In message <199406222130.OAA26882@nic.cerf.net> Michael Dolan writes:
>Another possibility would be to explicitly define an "unknown method server".

Yes, I like the idea of specifying a default proxy server for handling
unknown protocols.  In X Mosaic it could be via an environment variable
named "default_proxy" (similar to ftp_proxy, gopher_proxy, etc.)

-- Steve