- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:02:46 -0500 (EST)
- To: jpalme@dsv.su.se (Jacob Palme)
- Cc: discuss@apps.ietf.org, sol-tech@ambra.omega.it
Jacob Palme said this: > At 17.19 +0100 99-02-15, <spreitze@parc.xerox.com> wrote: > > There are even more reasons for wanting a family of > >"equivalent" URLs, and these are a general problem on the > >web. The classic example is motivated by mirroring, where > >you want each user to be fetching from a "nearby" mirror > >and yet everybody communicates with URLs that are not > >mirror-specific. > > That is handled by the URN standard, but we cannot use it, > because it is not supported by current web browsers. > I am currently writing this into mozilla. We also have a plugin for Explorer that we are working on improving. MS has made some noise in the past of needing URN support. All of the software is available at ftp://research.netsol.com. There are also Java classes available for URN resolution. -MM -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com
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