In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/04/2006 at 06:54 AM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The first definition I found was "An acronym for "Uniform Resource >Locator," this is the address of a resource on the Internet." An apple is a fruit and an orange is a fruit, but an apple is not an orange. An IP address or a domain name is not a URL or a URI. >See also http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt You mean this? In general, URLs are written as follows: <scheme>:<scheme-specific-part> Thus ftp://host.com/ is a URL but host.com is only a domain name. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
