dont rewrite it without knowing all the previous tries.
you dont want to make the same mistakes or reinvent the whell
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 03:49:09PM -0400, androsyn@i95.com wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jan-Simon Pendry wrote:
> > Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > Eh, 'users' MIGHT like it better. Not a good enough reason
> > > to go mucking about in every place 'open' gets implemented to watch
> > > for 'http://' at the beginning of a file, esp since a file with that
> > > name COULD technically exist... MAYBE /net/http://somesite/index.html
> >
> > i implemented a general purpose namespace hook in 4.4 bsd
> > called the portal filesystem. you can hang anything you like
> > on the end of it, including HTTP GET, FTP PUT etc. i guess
> > you really want
> >
> > open("/url/type://some/uri")
> >
> > and have the url daemon attached to "/url". (please don't limit
> > this to just http.)
> >
>
> This sounds like a better way to do it....Now I just need to figure out
> how to implement it ;)
>
> Aaron
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