you'd have to have at least a protocol/host/path separator. http/com/ibm/www/80/somepath/somefile -> is this referring to http://ibm.com/www.. http://ibm.com/w

you'd have to have at least a protocol/host/path separator. http/com/ibm/www/80/somepath/somefile -> is this referring to http://ibm.com/www.. http://ibm.com/www... or http://www.ibm.com/80.. http://www.ibm.com/80... Instead, I would imagine it should be something like: com.ibm:http/80:/somepath You could even do a lookup to com.ibm and ask for http SRV record to find the actual host to connect to.