Re: proxy support doesn't work for `file:...' URLs

Rick Troth (troth@rice.edu)
Mon, 2 May 1994 08:15:25 -0500 (CDT)

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On Mon, 2 May 1994, Larry Masinter wrote:
> ...
>
> I suppose I wouldn't need to do this if there were a supported
> URL localfile:... in all of the browsers; then we could deprecate
> `file:' by just making it equivalent to `ftp:'.

I, for one, would rather not. Maybe I'm anal,
or maybe I'm just lazy, but I'd like to keep those terse names.
Don't deprecate, fix!

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Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>, Rice University, Information Systems

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