[LINK] Re: Why www.etc?

Antony Barry tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au
Wed Dec 5 15:44:27 AEDT 2007



Begin forwarded message:
> .
> From: Mark Nearhos <mark at nearhos.com>
> Date: 5 December 2007 10:02:40 AM
> To: link at anumail0.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: Why www.etc?
>
>
> From TimBL's FAQ on why URIs are the way they are
>
> From: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#etc
>
> "I have to say that now I regret that the syntax is so clumsy. I  
> would like http://www.example.com/foo/bar/baz to be just written  
> http:com/example/foo/bar/baz where the client would figure out that  
> www.example.com existed and was the server to contact. But it is  
> too late now ..."
>
>

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