[TriLUG] OT - wolves are circling the sheep

[John Beimler]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

>He was referring to "telnet://" URLs, not HTTP.
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>The telnet:// thing was handy back in the day when anonymous telnet
>applications were still common, for access to BBSes and library catalogs
>and such.  Now that there are anonymous telnet servers, are very rare,
>there's no need for the URL scheme telnet://.
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The URI telnet:// is actually still useful. I have a list of all of my 
systems that are available for testing listed on a web page, and each 
has a telnet URI so that if someone wants to log in, all they have to do 
is click, and off they go. 

These are test systems, so telnet isn't a horrible way to log in, they 
are not systems where security is a big issue.

On a tangental note, IANA maintains a list of URI schemes: 
http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes


Peace.

john