URLs for trees
Stephen Lewontin (stevel@osf.org)
Sun, 18 Sep 94 00:23:01 -0400
> Latest suggestion (author requested anonymity):-
>
> /...
>
> 1) Its clean
> 2) Only backwards bongo is that anyone calling a directory ... will screw
> things.
> 3) It gets round semantic problems with *
>
> 4) ITS COMPATIBLE WITH VMS !!!!
>
>
> >Groan, just as they finalised the draft :-)
>
> Well the draft is hardly complete in any case. There are no URLs for posting
> news. And the gopher URL sucks turkey eggs.
>
> >I suppose it depends how you think about this facility. Are we talking
> >about a "meta object" (URL), or about an operation (method)? As we're
> >talking about protocol here I think the latter is more appropriate.
>
> No we are talking about an operation.
>
>
> fred/... is a directory listing (no client update, server update)
> fred/.../* is a compound object (lots of new software)
I've just come into the middle of this thread, so sorry if I'm missing
something, but /... happens to be the global root for DCE names. The
proposed use of /... would seem to be seriously incompatible.
Steve Lewontin/ Research Engineer/ OSF Research Institute.