Re: [9fans] gtk port

["James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>]

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:27:08PM +0000, James A. Robinson wrote:
>
> I like the idea, but I think there would have to be more than one web
> server name.  If Plan 9 gets longer filenames, it would be Really
> Neat to be able to say 'cat /http/www.sciencemag.org'...

I was thinking of acme's model where each window get's it's own id and
file system.  So each host would have it's own hierarchy. My example
was poor, I should have posted something along the lines of:

  /mnt/web/new/ctl      (open a new <id> proto://host:port)
  /mnt/web/new/get      (get back an <id> with data filled from GET)

  /mnt/web/id/get       (quick 'n' dirty GET request)
  /mnt/web/id/set       (set ?default? outgoing headers/httpauth)
  /mnt/web/id/post      (longer data submissions?)
  /mnt/web/id/headers/* (incoming header response)
  /mnt/web/id/body      (read the body of the response)

Or somesuch. With a private namespace for each host, you don't
worry about long filenames.

Jim