[10058] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Java and HTML and well known socket numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Breuel)
Thu Jun 13 05:04:00 1996
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 01:58:55 -0700
From: Thomas Breuel <tmb@best.com>
To: Matthew James Marnell <marnellm@portia.portia.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199606042113.RAA14120@portia.portia.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Matthew James Marnell writes:
> All these apps running to and fro, how can a java server on the
> Java port know if should accept the app or send it onto another
> java server? Which other server? [...]
> If I had a dime for every time something like this has
> been said and later poo-poo-ed, I'd have my daughters 2 million dollar
> college tuition for the year 2012 paid for, and that's just up until
> now, not figuring for inflation and interest. Chalk it up to "I'll
> believe it when I see it, and I still don't see the relevance to
> a Java well-known socket."
The "generic user agent roaming the net vision" also strikes me as a
tad silly. However, there are some very nice, specific applications
to letting the user execute scripts or programs on the server: news
filtering, content negotiation, etc. Those kinds of applications
otherwise require multiple roundtrips and/or the transmission of a lot
of data that the user isn't interested in.
Thomas.
