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- > Yeegh! When we have unlimited-bandwidth networks, then we can do
- > that, but until then, going through a gateway for something as
- > ubiquitous as FTP would be a mistreak IMHO....
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- I was thinking of a "local" gateway at each site (or even on the local workstation).
- This makes sense for our site because all our off-site FTP traffic has to go through
- a security gateway anyway.
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- Actually I believe the www library already has an optional provision for this anyway.
- By setting an environment variable like WWW_file_GATEWAY, all "file:" requests
- can be redirected to a local server. Does this still work?
-
- In any case, I still hold that fancy features like threaded news should be
- implemented in a server, not in the WWW clients.
-
- -- Steve
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