Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source documentA

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:32:11 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Mark H. Wood wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Alex Belits wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
> > As a person who implemented both I can certainly say that FTP is not
> > nice, just HTTP interface with filesystem is really poorly standardized.
> > Nothing keeps people with a clue from standardizing, say, arguments for
> > filesystem handling through URLs, and things like
> > "http://host/pub/gnu-mirror/?list=gcc*&format=ls+-l", or something better
> > will provide the same functionality by better means. HTTP 1.1 is a
> > large thing that spans the fuctionality of HTTP server itself and
> > various scripts, so I don't think, it should grow into even larger
> > monster, but separate RFC about filesystem handling will be just fine.
>
> A hollow voice says, "FTAM".

ISO :-\

--
Alex

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