Re: SSH URI draft

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

Joe Salowey <jsalowey%cisco.com@localhost> writes:

> I'm particularly interested to know what URI schemes have been
> implemented for these protocols.

The Mercurial version control uses uri's like

  ssh://shell.gmplib.org//home/hgfiles/gmp

where the extra slash before /home means that it's an absolute filename.
An uri's without it, e.g.,

  ssh://shell.gmplib.org/hack/private-gmp-hack

refers to a repository under my home directory (i,e.,
$HOME/hack/private-gmp-hack). 

I imagine other modern version control systems do something similar. The
meaning is loosely: Identify a particularly directory, which is
accessible by means of an ssh connection. In most or all cases, the
access would use a session channel and an "exec" request.

This is the most widespread use of ssh uri's in practice which I am
aware of (and appearantly quite different from what's described in the
SSH URI draft).

Regards,
/Niels

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