Re: Help test EFS

ms> In fact, W3 handles exactly the translation needed. All ms> somebody'd have to do is hack up a file-name handler which ms> recognizes URLs and hands them off to W3. W3 is close, but it needs reorganization before this could be convenient and robust. At the moment I find I need to require 'w3 as well as 'url in order to use the url-retrieve facility. I think we also want to implement the HEAD method (or whatever it's called) in order to get the file's "attributes" as much as possible without downloading it. I don't think w3 does yet. This needs to be cached since HTTP is in principle stateless == connection per transaction (although w3 may implement persistent connections, I don't know if servers are required to do so even in HTTP 1.1). I don't know how much of this w3 does, and I'm pretty sure it is not done at the url library level. Finally, w3 is in general in sad repair; I don't think Bill is doing much with it at the moment (he posted a cry for help a few months back, and that's about it). I know that T. V. Raman has expressed interest in packaging Emacspeak as an XEmacs package, but he is also concerned about the maintainership of w3. Bill? -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."