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Re: [Uri-review] ssh URI



On 12 Oct 2009, at 21:35, Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl> wrote:

David, you do not see a need to define a new URI scheme for anything, do you?. If I you do, please enumerate the requirements for a protocol that
would save it from the http black hole.
SSH is not a new protocol, and the "adoption rate" does not depend on the URI; it is an agreement between the owner and the user that counts. This agreement already provides all technical information the user needs, and
explaining it over HTTP would not be useful.
And how would you persuade the Web browser to send an HTTP SSH URI to an external handler instead of navigating to it? (Think Internet Explorer, for
clarity.)

...which in turn would have rather awkward privacy characteristics.

A custom scheme makes sense to me.

Dan