[10693] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Upgrading the news URL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
Mon Mar 10 15:09:45 1997
From: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 19:52:31 +0100
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In article <3323A9F3.29A3@cinenet.net>,
Dan Fabulich <dfab@cinenet.net> wrote:
> I was considering adding to the existing "news:" URL, such that it would
> allow links to a particular byte range within the body of a given post.
> It would be something like this:
>
> news:<message-id>@host/243-300
I don't think NNTP supports retrieving "byte ranges" from articles.
You can download just the header or body of an article, but a
particular byte range is not in my NNTP specification.
The only solution would seem the re-use of the # syntax, just like
with http URLs:
news:3323A9F3.29A3@cinenet.net#243-300b
or
news:3323A9F3.29A3@cinenet.net#24-26l
where 'b' or 'l' indicate "bytes" or "lines", respectively.
> they became able to interpret a fine-grained "news:" URL, Usenet could
> be the architecture for a fully integrated hypertext system, complete
> with fine-grained referencing and backlinking, just as hypertext was
> meant to be.
If we're going to re-do Usenet, why not start over and do it right
this time?
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