[VHFcontesting] All Icom SVC manuals, free pdf

[Nate Duehr]

Joshua M. Arritt wrote:
> kr7o at vhfdx.com wrote:
>>  The Italian site does not 
>> have the 37a manual, but lists one for the 47a, but I get an error message 
>> in Italian when I try to download that or other manuals from that site 
>> (will try later).  
>>   
> 
> The links on this page:
> 
> http://www.marcucci.it/e_download_s.htm
> 
>  ...point to strange, non-standard, I'd imagine non W3C-compliant URLs --
> 
> ftp://ftppub:ftpmarc@213.215.151.204/ftppub/service/GP22.zip
> 
> ...for example.
> 
> When you strip the stuff between "ftp://" and the IP address, they seem 
> to work.

Why guess?  You can easily use Bablefish to see what the Italian error 
message said.

As far as the URL's go:

Those ARE the standard URL format for including user/pass in URLs, been 
using that format myself since at least 1995.

That format also works fine for many other data resource types besides 
ftp.  Telnet, http, https, gopher... (Yeah, I said gopher.)

RFC 1738 covers it, written in 1994.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

W3C didn't (and doesn't) define URL's.  IETF did, many years before W3C.

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