- From: Gregory J. Woodhouse <gjw@wnetc.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:41:26 -0800 (PST)
- To: Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS <Gary.Adams@east.sun.com>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com, mirsad.todorovac@fer.hr, tm@rasips2.rasip.etf.hr
It occurs to me that this could function somewhat like mail exchangers.
In the domain name system, a domain may have any number of MX records,
with eachc being given a preference. The MTA thene tries them in order.
Similarly, web UA could try the first server and if it doesn't respond
(or is too slow, whatever that means) go on to the second. Under this
scheme, my home pave would look something like
http://{www.wnetc.com,5;www.best.com/%7Egjw,10}
In this case, nothing would be gained, but it might be useful with mirror
sites, or to specify that a local copy should be used if it is available,
as it
{file://,0;http://127.0.0.1,5;http://wherever.ext}<rest of URL>
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Gregory Woodhouse gjw@wnetc.com
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Received on Thursday, 7 March 1996 13:52:14 UTC