Re: Finger URL
Rick Troth (troth@rice.edu)
Sun, 21 Aug 1994 21:35:43 +0200
> It seems worthwhile to have a Finger URL, comments please.
It should be
finger://[user@]host[:port][/extra]
where "extra" is still up for grabs. More comments, please.
> -Reed Wade
>
> Finger URL
> ...
>
> examples:
finger://troth@rice.edu
finger://rb.is.rice.edu
= finger://@rb.is.rice.edu
> type
> If the type field is present it refers to a MIME content type.
This sounds great! Not sure where it should be, though.
> Note that /'s must be escaped.
Yes.
> If type is ommited it defaults to text/plain but with one
> difference: <UR?:xxx>'s found in the text stream should be
> made selectable by WWW browsers. If this feature is not desired,
> text/plain should be indicated explicitly.
Hmmm... I think I'd prefer for the server to munge things
like this. I started work just last week on an HTML "finger" agent.
The package has two sides: text/plain and text/html. The URL should
allow the client to request either.
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