prefix "URL:", be used to delimit the boundaries of the URL.  This
   wrapper does not form part of the URL and should not be used in
   contexts in which delimiters are already specified.

   In the case where a fragment/anchor identifier is associated with a
   URL (following a "#"), the identifier would be placed within the
   brackets as well.

   In some cases, extra whitespace (spaces, linebreaks, tabs, etc.) may
   need to be added to break long URLs across lines.  The whitespace
   should be ignored when extracting the URL.

   No whitespace should be introduced after a hyphen ("-") character.
   Because some typesetters and printers may (erroneously) introduce a
   hyphen at the end of line when breaking a line, the interpreter of a
   URL containing a line break immediately after a hyphen should ignore
   all unencoded whitespace around the line break, and should be aware
   that the hyphen may or may not actually be part of the URL.

   Examples:

      Yes, Jim, I found it under <URL:ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc;
      type=d> but you can probably pick it up from <URL:ftp://ds.in
      ternic.net/rfc>.  Note the warning in <URL:http://ds.internic.
      net/instructions/overview.html#WARNING>.









 
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References

   [1] Anklesaria, F., McCahill, M., Lindner, P., Johnson, D.,
       Torrey, D., and B. Alberti, "The Internet Gopher Protocol
       (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol)",
       RFC 1436, University of Minnesota, March 1993.
       <URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1436.txt;type=a>

   [2] Anklesaria, F., Lindner, P., McCahill, M., Torrey, D.,
       Johnson, D., and B. Alberti, "Gopher+: Upward compatible
       enhancements to the Internet Gopher protocol",
       University of Minnesota, July 1993.
       <URL:ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/gopher/gopher_protocol
       /Gopher+/Gopher+.txt>

   [3] Berners-Lee, T., "Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW: A
       Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of
       Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web", RFC
       1630, CERN, June 1994.
       <URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1630.txt>

   [4] Berners-Lee, T., "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)",
       CERN, November 1993.
       <URL:ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc/http-spec.txt.Z>

   [5] Braden, R., Editor, "Requirements for Internet Hosts --
       Application and Support", STD 3, RFC 1123, IETF, October 1989.
       <URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1123.txt>

   [6] Crocker, D. "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
       Messages", STD 11, RFC 822, UDEL, April 1982.
       <URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc822.txt>

   [7] Davis, F., Kahle, B., Morris, H., Salem, J., Shen, T., Wang, R.,
       Sui, J., and M. Grinbaum, "WAIS Interface Protocol Prototype
       Functional Specification", (v1.5), Thinking Machines
       Corporation, April 1990.
       <URL:ftp://quake.think.com/pub/wais/doc/protspec.txt>

   [8] Horton, M. and R. Adams, "Standard For Interchange of USENET
       Messages", RFC 1036, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Center for Seismic
       Studies, December 1987.
       <URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1036.txt>

   [9] Huitema, C., "Naming: Strategies and Techniques", Computer
       Networks and ISDN Systems 23 (1991) 107-110.






 
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  [10] Kahle, B., "Document Identifiers, or International Standard
       Book Numbers for the Electronic Age", 1991.
       <URL:ftp://quake.think.com/pub/wais/doc/doc-ids.txt>

  [11] Kantor, B. and P. Lapsley, "Network News Transfer Protocol:
       A Proposed Standard for the Stream-Based Transmission of News",