Re: A few questions.....

jerome@psti.com
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:43:42 -0400


the advantage of open("http://www.site.org"); vs open_http("www.site.org");
is the possiblity of the existing code -without- modification. all
the current tools would work as is.

example: cat http://www.site.org/index.html | less

it is the aim of the portal filesystem if i remember correctly.

On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 01:24:09PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> I would strongly suggest a userspace library. NOT part of libc,
> but a seperate library, w/ it's own function calls ("open_http(char*)"),
> and in fact, this quite possibly has already been done...

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