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- Oops. I didn't finish the thought before mistakenly delivering the message! :-(
- Let me try that again...
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- "Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" writes:
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- > HTML is great, but is HTTP worth it? I'm want practical details, so
- > don't send me philosophical waffle or flame me for being a traitor
- > to WWW, cos I'm not.
-
- Here's a practical detail, one which pushed me over the edge to setting
- up an http server for internal uses. I wanted to be able to refer to
- documents (via hyperlinks) which were rooted somewhere, rather than having
- to do a lot of messy stuff like "href=../../../foo/bar.html". I found it much
- easier to use "href=http://host.domain/foo/bar.html". It can also be
- a lot easier to maintain.
-
- One could use ftp instead of http, but http is a bit more permissive about
- following symbolic links (e.g. outside of ~ftp, for example).
-
- -Brian
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