[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/11] support/download: fix scp downloads

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Thu Jan 3 21:26:14 UTC 2019


Thomas, All,

On 2019-01-03 22:03 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, 21:55 Yann E. MORIN < [1]yann.morin.1998 at free.fr wrote:
>   This is not an URL, but an URI, and even then, this is only the
>   authority part [0] of the URI. ;-) But, Oh well... I'm bikeshedding
>   here, so:
> The differences between URL and URI have never been really clear to me.
> So from the link, URI is the generic term and URL is a type of URI? 

Don't bother: in all practicality, they are useable interchangeably in
the contexts we are most dealing with here. And as I wrote: I was really
just bikeshedding (well, I should have rather said that I were being
pedantic, but this would be starting to be a bit meta now...).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> And because this -u argument does not refer to one resource but a server hosting multiple resources, it cannot be a URL?
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> 
> Links:
> 1. mailto:yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
> 2. mailto:thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com
> 3. mailto:thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com
> 4. mailto:yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
> 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Generic_syntax

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