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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:29:00 PST
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port problem. 
Message-ID:  <97Oct27.222902pst.177487@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Oct 97 21:28:09 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.971027222436.13163A-100000@alive.znep.com> 

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Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> wrote:
>...and this change does, of course, violate RFC-1738 (RFC for URLs).
>However, not making this change violates RFC-959 (RFC for ftp). 
>
>Sigh.  What's a poor programmer to do.

I chose to make a similar change in fetch; I felt that it was much
less likely that there would be a use for sending "CWD " than finding
an ftp URL with two slashes in a row (especially since our pal
Netscrape violates RFC1738 in the same way)...

  Bill



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