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Re: request for a new URL scheme

Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Thu, 11 April 1996 02:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: request for a new URL scheme
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Most of the time when I've wanted to give a URL to something in a mud,
I've actually wanted to insert "after you connect, type the following
stuff too". So 

	mud://some.mud.com:4000/

isn't good enough. What I really wanted was something that meant:

    mudclient some.mud.com 4000
    log in as guest unless you already have an account
    type 'go north west east'
    type 'look board'

     mud://guest:guest@some.mud.com:4000/go%20north%20west%20east/look%20board

with the corresponding security issues associated with 'forced user
typein'. (Similar to the issues with expanding 'mailto:').

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