From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 08:19:08 CST
In <20020316031149-f01050003-2CCFEB3C-3883-11D6-A1C6-00039300CF5C-1013-010c@192.168.192.168.1.7> Terje Bless <link@pobox.com> writes:
>Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>>I know that many newsreaders can "guess" what is a URL when they see
>>one, but no standard mechanism has been defined for indicating them in
>>text documents as yet
>What about RFC 1738 and it's successor?
That only tells you what a valid URL looks like. It doesn't say that
everything that looks like a valid URL in a text/plain document has to be
treated as one. That is just a Microsoft/Netscape invention (useful as it
may be).
Somebody needs to write an RFC covering this issue.
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