file: access does not use RCP?

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 07:52:59 EDT
From: davis@willow.tc.cornell.edu (Jim Davis)
Message-id: <9206121152.AA27811@willow.tc.cornell.edu>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: file: access does not use RCP?

It would be a good idea if WWW tried to use RCP for
file access in addition to using anonymous FTP.

(I think it does not use RCP because I made a link to a file
on another computer and WWW was not able to access it.  But
I was able to RCP the file.  I set up a link to a different
file to which I verified anonymous FTP access, and that worked
fine.)

I would guess that RCP copying would be faster than FTP, so
maybe it should be tried first.

Best wishes... Viola and WWW are excellent.