The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.1882  Wednesday, 3 November 1999.

From:           Moray McConnachie <
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Date:           Tuesday, 2 Nov 1999 21:41:00 -0000
Subject: 10.1872 Re: URLs
Comment:        Re: SHK 10.1872 Re: URLs

>Actually both URLs are clickable.  If the computer and software are
>up-to-date, there should be no difference-as there was not for me in
>Christine's example pair.

However, the version without http:// is not technically a URL. URL's
must begin by defining their type, and therefore in this case it must
begin http://

This is not pointless rule-keeping. To some email programmes it makes a
different, and to some sites also. For example ftp://cpan.org is quite
different from http://cpan.org

See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html if you are really interested.

Yours,
Moray McConnachie