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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can someone tell me how to differentiate between
sending someone a URL 'link' to someone and sending an actual file? Is
there a difference? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For example, if I send someone a link to
'http://www.jabber.org/index.html' I would want the default action to be to open
that URL in a web browser, but it is conceivable that I may want to actually
send someone a .html file (or a bunch of them) and have them saved to disk
rather than being displayed. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Say I
wanted to transfer a website to someone using the file transfer feature on my
Jabber client, and I drag and drop 100 .html files....I don't want 100 browsers
to open at the other end. Is this left up to the receiving client to
work out how to treat them?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Or say I want to send someone a perl file, so I
send them filename.pl. That should be saved to disk right? But what
if I send a URL that happens to be a CGI script that ends in .pl? (Say <A
href="http://www.jabber.org/search.pl?query=oob">http://www.jabber.org/search.pl?query=oob</A>)
That should be displayed in the browser - but I can't see any way in the spec to
differentiate between the two.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, can someone tell me what port (range) file
transfers and other oob transfers should be assigned to? Is there any
guidence on this?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>