Re: irc:// style URLs

[Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:07:07AM +0100, Fran Boon wrote:
> These are a nice way to interlink IRC & the Web.
> They are supported by at least 2 Windows clients - mIRC & ViRC

Or not so nice.

I've seen no less than three different, incompatible specifications
for an irc:// URI. You can see two of them by looking through the
expired experimental RFCs and mozilla documentation.

Both of them suffer crippling issues with length and readability;
ultimately, a URI (designed to reference a file) just isn't a very
good representation of an IRC object (multiple overlapping namespaces
with complicated interaction). Square pegs into round holes...

An ircchannel:// URI type would probably be a better solution. Feel
free to try and create one.

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