- From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:26:11 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
Once upon a time Roy T. Fielding shaped the electrons to say... >Rob McCool (original developer of NCSA httpd and general webgod), didn't >know that the tilde was outlawed when he implemented user public_html >directories, and chose it as the most obvious default indicator of such. And for those who don't know that is basically because the original servers were on UNIX and on UNIX '~username' is a shortcut to the users homedir. On this box ~megazone and /home/server/megazone are the same place. And just ~/ means 'my homedir'. -MZ -- Livingston Enterprises - Chair, Department of Interstitial Affairs Phone: 800-458-9966 510-426-0770 FAX: 510-426-8951 megazone@livingston.com For support requests: support@livingston.com <http://www.livingston.com/> Snail mail: 6920 Koll Center Parkway #220, Pleasanton, CA 94566
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