From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Cc: Subject: Re: [9fans] WebDAV file system In-Reply-To: <015801c27fc2$2170f8b0$620da8c0@HPN5415> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:53:40 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 11a513d0-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, John E. Barham wrote: > I'm assuming that given HTTP is a stateless protocol that it would be > simpler than ftpfs. The statelessness of HTTP under 9P is not a given since you don't need a httpd to serve the pages, 9P does that. This means that it is completely possible to write a state-sensitive browser. The -only- time you need anything even remotely looking like a httpd under 9P is if you need the page you want to 'render' to execute one or more programs in a seperate and secure process namespace that only returns the results (ie server side equivalent). The advantage to 9P is that it is the client who ends up paying for that process resource, not the provider. 9P is cool, at least to me, because it does away with the need for the 'server' in a lot of client-server situations. This will eventaully have a major impact in the way systems are built I suspect. I suspect it will cause one or more nervous breakdowns as well. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We don't see things as they are, ravage@ssz.com we see them as we are. www.ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org Anais Nin www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------