Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:40:02 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: A few questions..... |
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Hi!
> > > Eh, 'users' MIGHT like it better. Not a good enough reason > > > to go mucking about in every place 'open' gets implemented to watch > > > for 'http://' at the beginning of a file, esp since a file with that > > > name COULD technically exist... MAYBE /net/http://somesite/index.html > > > > i implemented a general purpose namespace hook in 4.4 bsd > > called the portal filesystem. you can hang anything you like > > on the end of it, including HTTP GET, FTP PUT etc. i guess > > you really want > > > > open("/url/type://some/uri") > > > > and have the url daemon attached to "/url". (please don't limit > > this to just http.) > > > > This sounds like a better way to do it....Now I just need to figure out > how to implement it ;)
No. You just need to figure out where to download it. I've figured out how to do it, already.
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html.
Oh, well, you'll have to type open("/overlay/#url:type:||some|uri") for reasons described on the page.
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
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