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- > Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 23:24:26 +0200
- > From: aronsson@lysator.liu.se
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- > [..] If the destination document is maintained by someone else, he
- > should be notified that I have a link going there, so he doesn't
- > rename or reorganize his document without notifying me again.
-
- In HTTP there is another SBNIBAYAFAIK feature that the client can
- quote the "referee" (ie link source) when following a link. The
- features is designed to allow backward links to be built up as the
- forward links are followed.
-
- > Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 01:21:40 +0200
- > From: aronsson@lysator.liu.se
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-
- > What exactly does "pre-load a search" mean, and how do I implement
- > this in an HTML document?
-
- If there exists an index which covers the area (like if I got around
- to WAIS-idnexing all of that, you would quote something like
-
- http://info.cern.ch/hypertext?style
-
- and point the reader at the results of a wais serach for style in
- the database.
-
- > What if Tim and his WWW service moves from CERN to a new place?
- What
- > if Tim decides to rename "WWW/Provider/Style" to "WWWSTYLE.DIR"?
-
- A big difference between the http deamon and the ftp daemon
- is the document name to filename mapping. Though I wish
- I had named the documents "/InformationSystems..." rather
- than "/hypertext", I won't change the document names even
- if I move the files. I will write a server which maps the
- document names into their new places. In fact, already you are
- spared making references to
- "/Net/dxcern/userd/timbl/hypertext..." thanks to the
- mapping. Look at the mapping as a local name server so that
- within the server the path is in fact a name not an address.
-
- [Of course filenames aren't addresses either. I wouldn't like
- to have to count how many mappings occur before we get to
- the disk track/sector/cylinder numbers.]
-
- > If someone can pull this rug, why should I stand on it?
-
-
- If I want to, I cn turn the server off. But I don't want to.
- It is in my interests to maintain the pointers.
-
- > I would be happier to refer to an ISBN number, because then I only
- > specify the publisher, and not the library where I found the book,
- and
- > there would be an organization for registering new ISBN numbers
- that
- > would stop an author from changing a documents name.
-
- Have you joined uri@bunyip.com to talk about naming and addressing
- of document resources? If not, you might like to. Mail uri-request
- of course not the list.
-
- Tim
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