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- if we're double-quoting the
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- href="gopher://gopher.micro.umn.edu:70/00/Some Stuff"
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- so there's no question where the beginning of the reference is and
- where the end of the reference is, then I should think there's no
- problem.
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- Really, though, the gopher reference is (in gopherspeak)
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- Name=An arbitrary, but meaningful name
- Host=gopher.micro.umn.edu
- Port=70
- Type=0
- Path=Some Stuff
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- And the "href=" is just a way to squash it down to a single string.
- It could just as well be a set of attributes and not a single one.
- E.g.
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- <a gopherhost="gopher.micro.umn.edu"
- gopherport="70"
- gopherpath="/Some Stuff"
- gophertype="0">
- An arbitrary, but meaningful, name</a>
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- expresses the meaning of what's going on in a way that's far closer to
- how SGML might do it as far as I have been able to make out...Dan is
- that actually legal SGML?
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- This being a general flaw of URL, really - the idea was to make short
- strings that are printable, but as access methods get more complex a
- set of attribute=value pairs may make things quite a bit easier,
- for parsing and quoting as well as mapping from one access class
- (gopher links to telnet sites) to another (www native support for telnet).
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- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
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