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Re: URL semantics

"Gregory J. Woodhouse" <gjw@wnetc.com> Fri, 10 January 1997 03:38 UTC

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 17:45:14 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Woodhouse" <gjw@wnetc.com>
To: Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Cc: Dave Lewis <drlewi1@srv.pacbell.com>, uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: URL semantics
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Actually, it seems that the real issue here is whether resources are just
data objects or whether they also include network services such as Telnet,
SMTP and News. URLs in the mailto: and telnet: namespaces do not retrieve
data objects but do invoke services. URLs in the news: or nntp: namespaces
can have semantics of either type, depending on whether the namespace
specific string is a newsgroup name or a message ID.

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