[5219] in SIPB bug reports
Re: www home page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Sat Mar 18 15:55:05 1995
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 15:54:49 -0500
To: rvh@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9503171658.AA11376@swordfish.MIT.EDU> (rvh@MIT.EDU)
the user sees a
"single picture" but he can access different urls depending on what
part of that picture he clicks on...
It's commonly refered to as an `imagemap'. It works like this: you
click on the image, the client sends back the coordinates for where on
the image you clicked to the server. The server is specially
configured to take these coordinates and hand them off to another
program that does something meaningful with them.
The hard part for you will be those last few steps: you have to have a
server running somewhere that's configured to take the coordinates and
run a program that does something useful with them. The server run by
the SIPB is not in a position to allow arbitrary users to run random
programs right now, and it is unlikely that that situation will be
changing in the near future. If you have a server that you can use
this way and need help setting it up, you can ask webmaster@mit.edu
(the people that run the SIPB server) for help, or you could ask on
www-mit@mit.edu, the public discussion list for WWW-related issues.
chad
