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Re: Thoughts on an OpenPGP header?



On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:41:57AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:25:18 +0100, Simon Josefsson said:
> 
> > Right.  There is a specification:
> 
> > http://gbiv.com/protocols/uri/drafts/draft-ietf-uri-url-finger-03.txt
> 
> Which says that one should use
> 
>   finger://g10code.com/wk
> 
> if I do that in Galeon, I get "could not be found, please check name
> and try again".  If I enter
> 
>   finger:wk@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> it just works.  I think that this syntax better matches the use of
> finger and in fact it is similar to mailto:

I agree with this.  Interestingly, the earlier version of the above
document does have it specified this way.  I wonder why it was
changed.

David