Re: "file:" URLs?

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcormail de>]

Am 17.08.2001 16:38:18 schrieb(en) Toralf Lund:
> The patch attached to this message is an attempt to make Balsa recognise
> URLs of type "file:" within messages. It doesn't work. Can anyone explain
> why?

The patch looks ok, but maybe the browser doesn't understand it. However, IMHO
recognising file: URI's does not make any sense at all for a MUA. It assumes
that you have a file at some place on your local machine, send a mail to
somebody else, and there is exactly the same file at the same position with
proper permissions... what you want to do in this case is simply *attaching*
that file!

Not everything covered by the RFC's must go into a MUA. I also decided not to
support gopher: and telnet: URI's as I think they don't make sense. Gopher is
(more or less, at least) a thing of the past (and I don't know any program
which supports it). And telnet is nothing more than a security risk, which is
disabled on any proper administrated UN*X box. Maybe, later, ssh will be in
the RFC's...

Cheers, Albrecht.

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