From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000629191848.008e84c0@mail.real.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 19:18:48 -0700 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Skip Tavakkolian Subject: Re: [9fans] gtk port In-Reply-To: <20000629155159.A7064@cyber-dyne.com> References: <200006292202.SAA24290@cse.psu.edu> <20000629211635.261.qmail@nx.aichi-u.ac.jp> <200006292202.SAA24290@cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf4dad14-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 It would be nice to follow the example of ftpfs, but http does not map to a filesystem nicely. I suspect that is why there is an hget in the distribution and not an httpfs. For example what should the content of /http/x.y.com/i.html be, if a GET of 'http://x.y.com/i.html' results in a redirect? How does one represent a query parameter of a URI in a filesystem (like http://x.y.com/i.html?user="sam")? etc. It seems that the display problems would be straight forward with LOTS of code to display HTML (?and interpret Javascript?) and a little code for a go-between filter to acme. At 03:51 PM 6/29/00 -0700, Randolph Fritz wrote: >On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:27:08PM +0000, James A. Robinson wrote: >> > Yes Tcl/Tk may be bloated. However, if we have Tcl/Tk on Plan9, >> > We will also have "Grail", a web brawser written in Python. >> >> It would be nice to have a webfs server. I know the hardest part of a web >> browser is the html display, but to have something that would let you do >> >> echo 'http://www.sciencemag.org/' > /mnt/web/get >> cat /mnt/web/data > >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'... > >-- >Randolph Fritz >Eugene, Oregon, USA > >