Re: Gopher support in X Mosaic, cosmetic suggestion

Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Gopher support in X Mosaic, cosmetic suggestion
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 09:55:18 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <28569.9306122330@hpd.lut.ac.uk> from "cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu" at Jun 12, 93 06:32:14 pm
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Chuck said:

/ Seems to me people are addressing the wrong end of the pipe with regard to
/ gopher support. XMosaic shouldn't have to do anything in particular with
/ gopher info. Shouldn't it really be up to the HTTP server (or gateway) to
/ present gopher information in a more palatable form? It's a very minor
/ change to NCSA's HTTP server to get it to put out nice looking gopher
/ listings with in-lined images, etc. for example.

Woah!  What happened to my bandwidth ?!? :-) 

Martin.