Re: how should remote path names be handled?

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Date: 23 Apr 93  9:36 
From: "(Arnold Bloemer)" <bloemer@tnt.uni-hannover.dbp.de>
To: fine@cis.ohio-state.edu, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Message-id: <RFC-822:>
Subject: Re: how should remote path names be handled?

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Cc: dehning, falken, grau, muenkel, niem, woelker, wollborn, bloemer

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I had severe problems with relative pathnames when I setup
a WAIS database of my local set of HTML pages.

The idea behind setting up this database was, that I would
be able to generate a projection of the Web based on a search.

After I retrieve a HTML Page from the WAIS database I want to
be able to follow all the links in the HTML Page.

But I experienced that I could only follow links with absolute
pathnames. A relative URL like "HREF=QuickGuide.html" was 
translated to the following:

http://info:8001/info:21401/AB-WWW/HTML/2798/1=ikarus%3A21401;2=/hom
e/bloemer/docs/wais/wais-databases/AB-WWW;3=0%202798%20/home/bloemer/appl/inter
net/infosystems/www/tmp/WWW/LineMode/Defaults/Customisation.html;4=ikarus%3A214
01;5=/home/bloemer/docs/wais/wais-databases/AB-WWW;6=0%202798%20/home/bloemer/a
ppl/internet/infosystems/www/tmp/WWW/LineMode/Defaults/QuickGuide.html

This yields an error of 'Missing DocID in request'.

So if you want to setup a WAIS database for searching through your
information system the only way seems to be using absolute pathnames.

Or is the last statement wrong ?

Arnold