Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:15:34 +0000 From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET> To: Charlie Root <root@twwells.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010904161534.A97071@NewGold.NET> In-Reply-To: <E15eICB-0007ny-00@twwells.com> References: <00000925020cf507d1@[192.168.1.4]> <E15eICB-0007ny-00@twwells.com>
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What strikes me in this thread is that a lot of people are stupid and lazy and want FreeBSD's kernel (or libc) to do stupid things with URLs the same way you can throw a URL anywhere in Windows and have it mean something. Here's some news for you: It shouldn't, and probably won't, happen. If you really want something that insane and obscene and that much of a bastardisation of EVERYTHING networking-related, check in with the BASH people and do it on the shell level. If you're really lazy and want to be able to do: telnet smtp://localhost I suggest you look into this relatively new invention called '/etc/services' and read some manual pages. You'll find you can do something quite similar, and much saner. /joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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