Re: Reading news via WWW browsers

putz.parc@xerox.com
Date: 	Mon, 1 Mar 1993 11:54:16 PST
Sender: Steve Putz <putz@parc.xerox.com>
From: putz.parc@xerox.com
Subject: Re: Reading news via WWW browsers
In-Reply-To: "marca@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu's message of Mon, 1 Mar 93 13:40:55 PST"
To: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Message-id: <93Mar1.115434pst.58466@spoggles.parc.xerox.com>
> Yeegh!  When we have unlimited-bandwidth networks, then we can do
> that, but until then, going through a gateway for something as
> ubiquitous as FTP would be a mistreak IMHO....

I was thinking of a "local" gateway at each site (or even on the local workstation).
This makes sense for our site because all our off-site FTP traffic has to go through
a security gateway anyway.

Actually I believe the www library already has an optional provision for this anyway.
By setting an environment variable like WWW_file_GATEWAY, all "file:" requests
can be redirected to a local server.  Does this still work?

In any case, I still hold that fancy features like threaded news should be
implemented in a server, not in the WWW clients.

-- Steve