Re: [9fans] New user

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> things, but I don't know what would happen about local pages with
> external links. Perhaps all we really need is for Abaco to understand
> that things given on the command line can't possibly be relative
> links. *pokes fgb* ;)

html rendering is seperate.  that's why you need to have webfs(4)
and webcookies(4) available in abaco's namespace.

> Hmm... I'm starting to think most of what I dislike in Plan 9 is due
> to dropped metadata, in this case Abaco discarding the source of a url
> before parsing it.

see if this executable fixes the problem: /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/webfs
i fixed some relative links about 4 years ago and may not have submitted
a patch.

the unfixed grief i have with webfs is that it does not do character set
translation for character sets appearing in the http headers, rather than
in the html headers.  it really was unfortunate to put that information
in two places.

- erik