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- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 92 14:25:04 GMT+0100
- From: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee)
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- Magic -- I really like it. I have modified the WAIS-WWW gateway so that is the
- database is an archie one (i.e.database name contains "archie" :-| ) a W3 search of
- the database will give links directly to the files. This relies on the headline
- starting with host:/filename.
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- I wish we used /filename@hostname so that waisretrieve could handle it (and
- be compatible with the WAIS doc-id.
-
- Now the things which need neatening up. The gateway I was using is here in CERN,
- and the server is at ordst.edu. This implies a transatlantic link for every search.
-
- - Would you or anyone like to run the gateway locally? Volunteers?
- WAIS packets are small, but the distance makes reduces reliability.
-
- - Perhaps we should run the WAIS archie here, mirroring files.
-
- - One of us could run a direct W3 archie server rather than using a gateway
- process.
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- To use www as an archie client,
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- setenv WWW_wais_GATE http://info.cern.ch:8001/
-
- (or point to a more local gateway!) and
-
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- alias archie www wais://archive.orst.edu:9000/archie-orst.edu
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- I've put a pointer to the archie index in our CERN home page, but not publicised it
- yet.
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- Tim BL
-
- This is really cool.
-
- -brewster
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