URI schemes (was Re: Insert signature patch)

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Wed, 16 May 10:05 Daniel Foster wrote:
| > However among things I have in mind for the future is to adopt
| > URI syntax say "smtp://user:pass@host.example.org:25/".  The only
| > reason I haven't done it this way is that I can't find an RFC
| describing
| > this, though I vaguely remember seeing an Internet Draft on this
| once.
| 
| RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Indicators is probably the one you want.

This just describes the generic syntax for URI schemes.

There must also be a document describing the specific scheme for
a protocol and how to map portions of the URI to protocol actions.

I've just rechecked the registered schemes at
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/url-schemes
which shows there are schemes for pop and imap but not smtp!

Brian Stafford