Re: [9fans] mothra

[Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@messagingdirect.com>]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk> writes:

    Steve> The protocols should be separate. Whether it's something as
    Steve> simple as writing a URL to a ctl file and reading a page
    Steve> back from a data file, or something more subtle, I don't
    Steve> know, but the posting and fetching shouldn't have much of a
    Steve> clue about what to do with the result.

Exactly. An httpfs that just serves HTTP raw MIME content (and handles
caching).

We have to divorce HTTP from HTML. They're two distinct problems.

We should look at the 3rd edition mail system for clues on how
to layer an HTML reader on top of an HTTP fileserver. The mail
problem is very similar: MIME on top of IMAP. s/IMAP/HTTP/ using
the existing MUA tools and we're much of the way there. (Especially
if httpfs can export a file/directory structure comparable to how
the IMAP server does it. httpfs caching might in fact be mandatory
for this to be possible.)

--lyndon