[TriLUG] OT - wolves are circling the sheep

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:55, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> sholton at mindspring.com wrote:
> > So a URL like 
> >    telnet://nobody@trilug.org/ 
> > is as valid as it is stupid.  Both Netscape (4.7) and IE (kinda) supported this;
> > Mozilla, thankfully, does not.
> 
> Are you talking specifically about telnet???  Because HTTP, for example:
>    http://username:password@domain.com/blah/blah
> most certainly DOES work in Mozilla 1.4.  I use it frequently.

He was referring to "telnet://" URLs, not HTTP.

The telnet:// thing was handy back in the day when anonymous telnet
applications were still common, for access to BBSes and library catalogs
and such.  Now that there are anonymous telnet servers, are very rare,
there's no need for the URL scheme telnet://.

--Jeremy

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