From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Different representations of the same file/resource in a synthetic FS
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:30:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc130906091030m35af6200l36f759260090637@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244567653.9958.1733.camel@work>
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Roman V Shaposhnik<rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> Lets assume a classical example (modified slightly to fit 9P):
> a synthetic filesystem that serves images from a web cam.
> The very same frame can be asked for in different formats
> (.gif, .png, .pdf, etc.). Is serving
> /<date>/<time>/<camera-id>/gif/frame
> /<date>/<time>/<camera-id>/png/frame
> ...
> /<date>/<time>/<camera-id>/pdf/frame
> and relying on reading
> /<date>/<time>/<camera-id>
> for the list of "supported" representations really better
> than what HTTP content negotiation offers?
>
Plan 9 does this a bit, in that you can ask a special file in /net for
how to dial a certain host across all protocols. You can then pick the
one that suits you, and get instructions on how to use that proto
inside /net. I think it's a good use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-09 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 17:14 Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-09 17:27 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-06-09 18:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-09 19:01 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-06-11 3:44 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-06-11 4:49 ` [9fans] Different representations of the same lucio
2009-06-13 1:02 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-13 1:56 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 23:12 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-17 8:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-06-18 0:20 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-13 3:43 ` lucio
2009-06-16 23:15 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-09 17:30 ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-06-09 18:15 [9fans] Different representations of the same file/resource in a synthetic FS Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-06-09 18:59 erik quanstrom
2009-06-09 19:16 erik quanstrom
[not found] <eed9f9e37182c89c3e8a9982844f9d0f@quanstro.net>
2009-06-09 19:31 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-06-09 19:41 erik quanstrom
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