[4930] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Bug in Mosaic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Oct 19 13:31:49 1994
To: yandros@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 13:30:16 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> For simple
> clients accessing files directly, this seems a bit odd until you think
> about caches, proxies, url mapping, and the fact that web clients
> don't really ever see a filename path; the URL's just look like UNIX
> paths and sometimes subsume them.
I disagree: If I give a Web client the URL:
file:/mit/warlord/www/home_page.html
I would _expect_ the client to see "file:" and realize it should
just read the file, and then "/mit/warlord/www/home_page.html" and
open that file and read it. If the client knows that it can't parse
the file itself, in the case of a MIME-type that the viewer knows
requires an external viewer, the web client should pass this filename,
which is _KNOWS_ is a real file (it got a file: URL type!), directly
to the MIME-type viewer.
If I say "file", I do not mean "talk to this server", I mean
open(filename, "r");
-derek
