- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@hal.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 12:29:27 -0500
- To: www-talk@www0.cern.ch, www-lib@www0.cern.ch
In some cases, all this business of converting mail, gnu info, FAQs etc. to html on servers adds value: folks tend to add database searching support; they tend to make the stuff generally more accessible to WWW clients while they're at it. But wouldn't it make a lot more sense to support mail syntax and gnu info syntax in WWW clients? Every HTTP client already has code to parse RFC822 headers to deal with HTTP return messages. The same code could be used to parse mail messages from local disk, or from FTP servers, etc. Support for viewing message/rfc822 (with recursive MIME body part handling...) and gnu info format object should be part of libwww. I've done message/rfc822 support in a protype client, so I know it can work. And I know other folks have done info->html converters. Hmmm... Dan
Received on Friday, 2 September 1994 19:28:34 UTC