Re: Help : FTP A PDS

On Thu, 4 May 2006 06:54:48 -0700, Charles Mills <charlesm@xxxxxxx> wrote:

The first definition I found was "An acronym for "Uniform Resource Locator,"
this is the address of a resource on the Internet." Would not FTP hosts
qualify as "a resource on the Internet"?

See also http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

Indeed. But Tisler's constructs failed to meet the given syntax by
lacking a scheme part.

Nowadays browsers confuse the issue by attempting to complete typed
URL fragments by any combination of the following:

o Prefix "http://";

o Prefix "www."

o suffix ".com" (or ".org", ".net"., ".edu", ".gov", ...)

(Beware of typing "Whitehouse" and expecting to find W's home page.)

Conversely, I would not be surprised if some browsers attempt to interpred
FTP URLs.

I have sometimes in lists such as this used a FTP URL as a shorthand
notation for host + path. E.g.: ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/s390.

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