On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, jeremiah_at_easywebsite.se wrote:

>> However, having said all that, RFC-1738 says that the curl way is the right
>> and only way. If the server you are connecting to won't handle this, then
>
>> the URL you are using invalid.
>
> The URL is a valid in the way that the resource physically exists and is
> reachable as an URL through other means.

Clearly it is not legal by the RFC1738 definition. But no, most user-agents
don't follow that RFC it seems.

> > I certainly wouldn't mind seeing a change to libcurl that would make it
> > attempt the other method if the first method fails.
>
> This sounds like it is worth doing, though perhaps of limited appeal.

You're not the first to face this problem, so while perhaps limited it is
indeed of interest to more than very few people.

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