- From: Dan Fabulich <dfab@cinenet.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:10:10 -0800
- To: Albert Lunde <albert-lunde@nwu.edu>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Albert Lunde wrote:
> HTTP 1.1 provides for byte-ranges within an HTTP request, but not
> within a URL. There are serious technical questions as to what
> it means to link to a byte-range of a file, for MIME types other
> than plain text. (An arbitrary byte-range section of,say,
> an HTML or PDF file is not a complete document, in general.)
True. Fortunately, Usenet is mostly plaintext for now, so it wouldn't
pose much of a problem.
> I think there are servers like John Franks wn server ...
Perhaps, but it would be a heck of a lot simpler to change the news URL
than it would be to upgrade every news server across the Internet.
> If you are doing server-specific hacks it might make more
> sense to use the nntp: or http: schemes to serve up articles
> since the news: scheme in effect assumes any news server is
> as good as any other.
That's the idea, actually. This could work on any news server on any
system anywhere on the Internet.
-He who laughs last thinks slowest-
dAN
Received on Monday, 10 March 1997 20:10:23 UTC