[rt-devel] Re: Remote linking

[Jesse]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:34:27AM +0200, Tobias Brox wrote:
> > They're actually getting more popular and closer to a standard.
> 
> I thought it had been a "forgotten" standard for many years.
> 
> >  Win2k
> > actually adopted them for some things.. (not that that's a reason to use them,
> > but it means they'll be higher visibility.)
> 
> I'd rather call that a reason not to use them :) Well, sounds like a great
> idea anyway.  Then what about rt2://fsck.com?ticket=345&queue=general
>

Hrm. I should probably go dig out the relevant specs on URIs.  I remember
something about the scheme having to have a vendor ID in it for things other
than IETF standards. 

Why do you have the queue in there? htat could easily change without the remote site knowing about it, nor does the remote site need it to look up the reference.

As far as I know there's no real need for the silly http style parameter passing.  



How about fsck.com-rt://<instance name>/ticket/<ticket id>

in practise this would look like:

	fsck.com-rt://fsck.com/ticket/2734 
or	fsck.com-rt://support.funcom.com/ticket/89235

my one real concern with this scheme is that some people seemed to have badly named their RT instances as "support" or "help"


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