Re: Help test EFS
Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
>>>>> "ms" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
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
yep its HEAD i believe, i will look it up to be sure
im a web geek if you need some help with http stuff :)
"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
no they are not "required"
it is set by default in apache tho so thats most of the web servers :)
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.
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