Finger URL

Reed Wade (wade@cs.utk.edu)
Sun, 21 Aug 1994 01:20:28 -0400


It seems worthwhile to have a Finger URL, comments please.

-Reed Wade

Finger URL

finger://<hostport>/[<type>/]<user>

examples:

finger://cs.utk.edu/text%2fhtml/info
finger://cs.utk.edu/wade

hostport
what you think it means

type
If the type field is present it refers to a MIME content type.
The result of the finger lookup should return data of this type.
Note that /'s must be escaped.

If type is ommited it defaults to text/plain but with one
difference: <UR?:xxx>'s found in the text stream should be
made selectable by WWW browsers. If this feature is not desired,
text/plain should be indicated explicitly.

user
The data for the finger lookup. Encoded NEWLINES are not permitted.

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