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- From: daniel@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Daniel Torrey)
- Subject: Re: index for all of gopherspace - try the new archie...
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- In <1992Jul28.001000.8292@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> peterd@bunyip.com (Peter Deutsch) writes:
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- >The idea is that archie will revisit your server periodically to a)
- >verify you're still alive, and b) pick up a description of your site in
- >some format (provided you can give this to us). We were planning to
- >look into asking the Gopher gang to standardize on such site
- >descriptions as we set things up. Sound reaonable? Have such standards
- >been worked out and I missed it?
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- Sounds like a great idea, Peter. Resource discovery is non-existent in
- Gopher. I don't believe that we've got any work going on in this area
- at all yet.
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- >Another approach is a simple extension to the Gopher protocol to allow
- >us to say "dump the equivalent of ls -lR" to the sender and have
- >the server give back the entire listing in a format we can parse, or
- >even "dump your hierarchy of descriptions files".
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- I like this one, although I'm but a lowly client-developer. Paul Lindner
- is well-qualified to address this one, being the main server architect.
-
- -daniel
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