Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:45:30 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source documentA |
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Alex Belits wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > As a person who implemented both I can certainly say that FTP is not > nice, just HTTP interface with filesystem is really poorly standardized. > Nothing keeps people with a clue from standardizing, say, arguments for > filesystem handling through URLs, and things like > "http://host/pub/gnu-mirror/?list=gcc*&format=ls+-l", or something better > will provide the same functionality by better means. HTTP 1.1 is a > large thing that spans the fuctionality of HTTP server itself and > various scripts, so I don't think, it should grow into even larger > monster, but separate RFC about filesystem handling will be just fine.
A hollow voice says, "FTAM".
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu Innovation is only valuable if it improves one's life; otherwise it's just one more silly change to cope with.
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