I wish ... (ftp: and file:)

Rick Troth (TROTH@UA1VM.UA.EDU)
Mon, 07 Nov 94 19:47:25 CST

I wish that client authors would use different logic for file:
and ftp: type URLs. Some (most? all? the library?) are using the same
logic for both of these. It's a shame. Intuitively,

ftp://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/path/path/file

works for both Anonymous FTP and non-Anonymous FTP, and

file:/path/path/file

refers to a locally resident object.

Then we don't need an explicit anon-ftp: URL type.

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Rick Troth, <rmtroth@aol.com>, <troth@ua1vm.ua.edu>, Houston, Texas, USA