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SubjectRe: Comments on Microsoft Open Source documentA
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".

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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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