Re: [MacPerl] "the pod"

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

pudge@pcix.com (Chris Nandor)
>At 12:56 11/7/96, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>>>I remember having seen a URL that started with "pod:" - are there really Web
>>>browsers out there that read pod, or was that a joke / a wish ?
>>
>>None of the above. Urlification makes it possible to use Internet Config to d
o
>>the dispatching (purists may object that pod, as opposed to ftp and http, is
>>not a protocol at all.
>
>Very true; but neither is file, which is a standard browser "protocol."

"file" tells the browser to fetch the document from the local disk, so I
suppose it *is* a protocol. However, a pod is a document type, which presumably
could be served over http or ftp or as a file.

Matthias

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