home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Edward Vielmetti writes:
-
- > I'd like to see WAIS databases treated as first class objects in WWW.
-
- Testify!
-
- > This probably involves moving code from the www-to-wais gateway into
- > the client library, or having "smart" clients go off and use
- > "full featured" wais clients when they are presented with serviers.
-
- I prefer the move into the client library, myself. It would be
- exceptionally simple to do -- just steal some of the code from the
- existing gateway and munge munge munge.
-
- > The next step of this is to take the wais directory of servers and
- > add value to it by writing a .src->.html converter that makes things
- > look really nice.
-
- Yes! Yes! Such a converter should:
- o recognise news.group.format
- o recognise anonymous:/ftp/references
- o recognise maintainer@e-mail.addresses
-
- Hmm, there must be more -- if that were all, I could do it with sed
- commands:
-
- s/([A-Za-z0-9-\.])+/<A HREF="news:\1">\1<\/A>/
- s/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+)(:?/?)([A-Za-z0-9-\.\/]+)/<A HREF="file:\/\/\1\/\3">\1\2\3<\/A>/
- s/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+@[A-Za-z0-9-\.])/<ADDRESS>\1<\/ADDRESS>/
-
- Nat.
-
-