Overactive colon in VB6

29 May 2009 2:59 PM

Bee

Or maybe I should call it the hyperactive colon in VB6
I am fiddling with what I thing are generically called hyperlinks.
I have search for all the cases but cannot find what I think should be more.
So, here I am asking for help again.

Here are a few, what else is there?

news://msnews.microsoft.com    ' open as newsgroup
http://www.yahoo.com              ' open a web page
www.yahoo.com                       ' open a web page
? why two synttax for the opening a web page?
Just a shortcut?

And most important, for the missing, what are they for and what do they do?

Thanks.

29 May 2009 3:11 PM

Bob Butler

"Bee" <B**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Or maybe I should call it the hyperactive colon in VB6
> I am fiddling with what I thing are generically called hyperlinks.

More correctly, URLs (uniform resource locators)

> I have search for all the cases but cannot find what I think should be
> more.

mailto:
ftp:
https:
gopher:
wais:
ldap:
telnet:
... and others

> So, here I am asking for help again.
>
> Here are a few, what else is there?
>
> news://msnews.microsoft.com    ' open as newsgroup
> http://www.yahoo.com              ' open a web page
> www.yahoo.com                       ' open a web page
> ? why two synttax for the opening a web page?
> Just a shortcut?

'www.yahoo.name' is not a valid URL, it's just a host name. Most browsers
will assume you mean http://hostname:80/ when you omit the protocol. Some
may even try other common protocols like https: and ftp: if http: fails.

> And most important, for the missing, what are they for and what do they
> do?

start here
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt

29 May 2009 7:42 PM

Kevin Provance

gopher...oh my. It's been a while. <g>

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29 May 2009 3:12 PM

Bob Butler

"Bee" <B**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Or maybe I should call it the hyperactive colon in VB6

by the way, this really has nothing to do with VB. A URL is a URL
regardless of the language used to implement the protocol.

29 May 2009 3:19 PM

Jeff Johnson

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"Bee" <B**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Or maybe I should call it the hyperactive colon in VB6
> I am fiddling with what I thing are generically called hyperlinks.
> I have search for all the cases but cannot find what I think should be
> more.
> So, here I am asking for help again.
>
> Here are a few, what else is there?
>
> news://msnews.microsoft.com    ' open as newsgroup
> http://www.yahoo.com              ' open a web page
> www.yahoo.com                       ' open a web page
> ? why two synttax for the opening a web page?
> Just a shortcut?

Yes, just a shortcut. These things are generally referred to as "protocol
schemes," and there are quite a few of them, altough some are far more
common than others. What you might want to do is search for one or more
alphanumeric characters which are followed by a colon and two slashes (
____:// ).

Here, I did some legwork for you: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes.html

29 May 2009 10:40 PM

Nobody

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Official_IANA-registered_schemes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Unofficial_but_common_URI_schemes

30 May 2009 3:40 AM

Bee

Thanks all.
I searched but did not know the relevant keywords.

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"Bee" wrote:

> Or maybe I should call it the hyperactive colon in VB6
> I am fiddling with what I thing are generically called hyperlinks.
> I have search for all the cases but cannot find what I think should be more.
> So, here I am asking for help again.
>
> Here are a few, what else is there?
>
> news://msnews.microsoft.com    ' open as newsgroup
> http://www.yahoo.com              ' open a web page
> www.yahoo.com                       ' open a web page
> ? why two synttax for the opening a web page?
> Just a shortcut?
>
> And most important, for the missing, what are they for and what do they do?
>
> Thanks.
>
>