Message-Id: <9202251719.AA15081@nic.cic.net> To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch Cc: "Mark P. McCahill" <mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu>, JONZY@cc.utah.edu, Subject: Re: Size limits for text files? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Feb 92 15:52:17 +0100." <9202251452.AA04826@ nxoc01.cern.ch > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 12:19:12 -0500 From: emv@cic.net > WWW caches texts hmmm. If you were running a WWW "http" gateway, I suppose you could do a big pile of caching - rather than have every individual user go out to the world to fetch documents individually, they would go to your relay server which might well have the things they were interested in already. Such things have also been proposed for FTP servers, I guess I would add -- you'd connect to a local caching FTP server, from which you could 'cd' to other anonymous FTP sites; if the local cache didn't have what you wanted it'd go off to the real place to get it. Fortunately gopher and WWW both seem more amenable to hacking^H^H^H^H^H^H^H research in this regard than the usual FTP demon. w/r/t size - like I say I don't want to have hard coded limits for things, but people doing design need to keep in mind that if a menu pick results in a megabyte worth of text being thrown at my client I'm not going to be happy about it... --Ed