Re: [Uri-review] ssh URI

[Dan Brickley <danbri at danbri.org>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:01 PM, David Booth <david at dbooth.org> wrote:
> I don't see a need to define a new URI scheme for this.  You can just
> define an http URI prefix for this purpose, as described in
> http://dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/
>
> Furthermore, as Graham Klyne suggested during a similar discussion
> earlier, "an HTTP URI can also retrieve a protocol [handler]
> implementation"
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2009Sep/0029.html
> This could dramatically improve the adoption rate of a new protocol.

You'd really be advocating retrieval of SSH protocol handlers over
untrusted HTTP connections? That's brave or something!

Dan