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- Ed,
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- First off, thanks for the pointer to the Gophercon report.
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- You would like to be able to browse through the directories
- of the http server's file system. I gree this would be a useful
- feature, and it is one we aim to put in one day (trivial like
- all the other things to do :-).
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- Mind you, there are some things in the W3 team's directory
- which are just temporary or junk or old versions, etc. So
- we might feel that we don't want people reading for example
- our c files as we edit them. There's a bit of security there
- that if we temporarily leave in a WWW directory
- something which we wouldn't want distributed (like a copy
- of passwd -- unlikely but an example) then noone will
- find it. These are our working directories. So probably when
- we dop produce a server which will serve directories, which
- will make it MUCH easier to publish plain text a la Gopher
- server, then we might ourselves disable it.
-
- What we SHOULD do is WAIS-index the lot and also make a
- little recursive "www -lR" which traverses a web.
- Another trivial bit of code... You have to have a
- terminating condition of course.
-
- BTW thanks also for mentioning W3 again in Gopherville.
- I liked teh bit in the report about W3 being the result of
- "heavy investment" by the Physics community. At CERN we are
- trying to arrange for a third person... Bothe W3 and Gopher
- of course are basically grass-roots sourced. We are talking about
- a W3 support consortium ... maybe a W3con is not too far off.
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- Tim
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