A Complete Guide to Web Design

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Creating Links

Non-Web Links and Protocols

Web Design in a Nutshell, eMatter Edition

News news:newsgroup
news:message_id

Accesses either a single message or an entire

newsgroup within the Usenet news system.

Some browsers do not support news URLs so

you should avoid using them.

NTTP nntp://server:port/
newsgroup/article

Provides a complete mechanism for accessing

Usenet news articles. The article will only be

served to machines that are allowed to retrieve

articles from this server, so this URL has limited

practical use.

Telnet telnet://user:pass-
word@server:port/

Opens a telnet session with a desired server.

Theuser andpassword@ elements are

optional and follow the same rules as

described forftp://.

Gopher gopher://
server:port/path

Accesses a document on a gopher server. The

gopher document retrieval system was

eclipsed by the World Wide Web, but some

gopher servers are still operating.

Type Syntax Use