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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 12:58:27 +1200
From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
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In-Reply-To: Edward Vielmetti's message <m0njED4-001IF4C@garnet.msen.com>
Subject: WAIS databases as first class WWW objects
Edward Vielmetti writes:
> I'd like to see WAIS databases treated as first class objects in WWW.
Testify!
> This probably involves moving code from the www-to-wais gateway into
> the client library, or having "smart" clients go off and use
> "full featured" wais clients when they are presented with serviers.
I prefer the move into the client library, myself. It would be
exceptionally simple to do -- just steal some of the code from the
existing gateway and munge munge munge.
> The next step of this is to take the wais directory of servers and
> add value to it by writing a .src->.html converter that makes things
> look really nice.
Yes! Yes! Such a converter should:
o recognise news.group.format
o recognise anonymous:/ftp/references
o recognise maintainer@e-mail.addresses
Hmm, there must be more -- if that were all, I could do it with sed
commands:
s/([A-Za-z0-9-\.])+/<A HREF="news:\1">\1<\/A>/
s/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+)(:?/?)([A-Za-z0-9-\.\/]+)/<A HREF="file:\/\/\1\/\3">\1\2\3<\/A>/
s/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+@[A-Za-z0-9-\.])/<ADDRESS>\1<\/ADDRESS>/
Nat.