> > > Eh, 'users' MIGHT like it better. Not a good enough reason
> > > to go mucking about in every place 'open' gets implemented to watch
> > > for 'http://' at the beginning of a file, esp since a file with that
> > > name COULD technically exist... MAYBE /net/http://somesite/index.html
> >
> > i implemented a general purpose namespace hook in 4.4 bsd
> > called the portal filesystem. you can hang anything you like
> > on the end of it, including HTTP GET, FTP PUT etc. i guess
> > you really want
> >
> > open("/url/type://some/uri")
> >
> > and have the url daemon attached to "/url". (please don't limit
> > this to just http.)
> >
>
> This sounds like a better way to do it....Now I just need to figure out
> how to implement it ;)
No. You just need to figure out where to download it. I've figured out
how to do it, already.
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html.
Oh, well, you'll have to type open("/overlay/#url:type:||some|uri")
for reasons described on the page.
Pavel
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