[jcifs] SMB URL

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 08:03:16PM -0400, Michael B. Allen wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:47:15 -0500
> "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:
> 
> > I need to get a new SMB URL draft into the IETF.  The current is set to 
> > expire.
> > 
> > Some quick thoughts:
> > 
> > - I went over the list of parameters that can be set using the ?<query> 
> >   syntax and removed a few (per Mike's suggestion, IIRC).  The current 
> >   list is:
> > 
> >       nbt_param     = ( ( "NBNS=" | "WINS=" ) host )
> >                       | ( "NBDD=" host )
> >                       | ( "SCOPE=" hostname )
> >                       | ( "CALLED=" netbiosname )
> >                       | ( "CALLING=" netbiosname )
> >                       | ( ( "WORKGROUP=" | "NTDOMAIN=" ) nbtname )
> >                       | ( "RESOLVE=" nbt_resorder )
> 
> I  would  rather you introduce only the obviously useful parameters so that
> we  can  incorporate  that  functionality  into  clients and then gradually
> determine what other parameters would be useful.

Well, following a heated discussion on #samba-technical IRC, I could be 
convinced that only the SCOPE is worth-while, and even that is 
questionable.

What would happen if all of the above parameter options were removed?
It seems to me that most of them would need to be configured within the
application.  That might be a pain in tools like Mozilla or Netscape.

Thoughts?

Chris -)-----

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