Re: "file:" URLs?

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

On 2001.08.19 23:31 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> 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!
No. I want to send a message to and _internal_ address, and refer to a file
on a directory shared via NFS and readable by anyone. I do not want to
attach the file, what I'm looking for is an alternative to attachments, for
LARGE files sent to (still internal) distribution lists. We do this all the
time, with Netscape Messenger and others.

> 
> Not everything covered by the RFC's must go into a MUA. 
Of course not...
> 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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