Re: SSH URI draft

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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:34:46PM +0100, Niels Möller wrote:
> The Mercurial version control uses uri's like
> 
>   ssh://shell.gmplib.org//home/hgfiles/gmp
> 

So there's a path after the host part and that path represents a command 
or file or path to repository, etc?  You're correct in that a non-empty 
path element is not ignored in this draft.  A parameter should be 
used for this instead otherwise it seems rather unclear what's supposed 
to happen with that path element outside of the context of the 
application-specific usage.

As a side note, why wouldn't the scheme use a . to indicate a relative 
reference (as recommended RFC 3986)?

Steve