Comments on: Hold on to the http://

By: Jeremy Visser

Jeremy Visser — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:51:38 +0000

Now that you mention the FTP, I have a gripe about that.

My ISP’s FTP server is http://ftp.iinet.net.au. I frequently type “http://ftp.iinet.net.au” into my browser, expecting it to go to http://ftp.iinet.net.au/, but Firefox sees the “ftp” on the beginning of it and goes to “ftp /ftp.iinet.net.au/” instead.

Most annoying.

By: Jaap

Jaap — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:39:35 +0000

People paste http://www.homeshop.com.au into their browser. And it is not Gopher. And if this browser is somewhat modern it’ll be able to make a distinction between FTP and HTTP. And otherwise they won’t ever see FTP. And that still doesn’t make a whole lot of difference ’cause the people who want to make use of FTP know how to do that (or will find someone who knows).
The upside is: for people who do know how these things work this only makes stuff easier. Really, I’m my line of business (ICT) it is also a de facto.
http:// and www. are not necessary anymore.

By: Neither rhyme nor reason » We don’t need no stinkin’ URI schemes

Sun, 18 May 2008 11:02:03 +0000

[...] so I, for a while like Jeremy have lamented the disappearance of the URI scheme (the “http://” bit ) in URLs when seen in [...]

By: Jeremy Visser

Jeremy Visser — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:15:23 +0000

Yeah, I do know that, and I am guilty of omitting the protocol myself. I took that point of view in my writing to stir up some thought about the matter.

By: Bend in the Weather

Bend in the Weather — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:31:35 +0000

Death to http://...

Recently Jeremy Visser blogged about his frustrations that the http:// URI being dropped off addresses.

To be honest, I don’t see it as a big problem.

Like it or not the Joe Six-Pack uses the following apps in this order:
Web BrowserEmail Clie…