[Torrent] ∪ QUALITY TORRENTS ∪ [DQN] (22)

1 Name: (*ﾟーﾟ) : 1993-09-8731 03:59

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:abac45ddab754409d67e99fa661db98d31cbfa70

2 Name: (*ﾟーﾟ) : 1993-09-8731 19:28

Great thread. Excellent post. Would read again. URIs are my favorite short-form genre.

3 Name: (*ﾟーﾟ) : 1993-09-8732 05:38

Can we get a tracker or ten for that? Whatever it is, 24 hours of peer exchange hasn't turned up anyone in my peer cloud of '80s mecha enthusiasts who happens to have the torrent file.

4 Name: (*ﾟーﾟ) : 1993-09-8732 06:13

I wonder why every net protocol you see linked does the stupid web browser // thing but magnet

anyway, here is a certified [DQN] quality torrent [EHT PERSONALIZED TORRENT - DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE] https://ehtracker.org/get/1045523/80b70fc90825533cba01e9ad6d803ba3395f74ba.torrent

5 Name: (*ﾟーﾟ) : 1993-09-8732 08:14

>>4
The earliest piece of evidence I can find that references protocols other than http: and uses "//" is RFC 1738. They say

>The scheme specific data start with a double slash "//" to indicate
>that it complies with the common Internet scheme syntax.

by which they appear to mean "The WWW is really hot right now, so we're just going to copy Berners-Lee's URLs".

Also, http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net/magnet-draft-overview.txt says

>FYI, EDonkey URIs violate many provisos of RFCs 1738 and
>2396, including the use of "//" at the front of a non-
>hierarchical namespace and the use of illegal/disfavored
>(when not escaped) characters

It's a bit of a jump from "common Internet scheme syntax" to "hierarchical namespace", but it sort of makes sense.

As to the torrent, thank you. I am now assured of its DQN quality.

6 Name: (*ﾟーﾟ) : 1993-09-8733 19:12

The reason for the leading // is disambiguation between relative and absolute URLs when hyperlinking within a hierarchical protocol, for example. Since magnet is not hierarchical, it does not require a leading //. Common, non-hierarchical "Internet schemes" include mailto, data, and sip.
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