URLs are the uniform way to locate resources

Re:URLs are the uniform way to locate resources by jrockway on Monday May 24, 2010 @03:50AM (#1374076)

I typically use "github:jrockway/foo.git", not "ssh://[email protected]/jrockway/foo.git". SSH invented its own format; it didn't reuse regular URLs. (Complicating matters, perhaps, is my .ssh/config file, which eliminates the need to specify the username and hostname in the host part.)

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Re:URLs are the uniform way to locate resources by tedunangst on Monday May 24, 2010 @01:09PM (#1375091)

ssh didn't invent that format. It's the rcp format, which is older than URLs. It's hard to reuse something a decade before it exists.

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Re:URLs are the uniform way to locate resources by jrockway on Monday May 24, 2010 @02:36PM (#1375348)

Well, yeah. That's why it's wrong to criticize the article by saying that they made up the example. They did not.

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