Hi, John D. Baker noticed [1] that our ftp(1) does explicitly not do globbing for rfc3986-addresses [2], i.e. urls of the type "protocol:server/path" instead of the classic type "server:path". I think that's a very unintuitional behvaiour. Apparently, OpenBSD's ftp(1) doesn't do it this way, FreeBSD's ftp(1) behaves like ours, but they also have fetch(1). From a short look at rfc3986 (no treally thoroughly), an asterisk is a reserved character anyway. Is there something I missed, or are there other reasons to not have globbing for rfc3986 uris? Or should we change this behaviour? Regards, Julian [1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2011/11/17/msg009590.html [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
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