Accessing CSO servers via Web browsers

Steve Heaney <Steve.Heaney@delft.sgp.slb.com>

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 19:22:41 +0100
From: Steve Heaney <Steve.Heaney@delft.sgp.slb.com>
Message-id: <199310291822.AA02893@mordred.delft.sgp.slb.com>
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Subject: Accessing CSO servers via Web browsers


Anybody,

Is there any reason why I should not be able to reliably query CSO servers 
e.g. <gopher://x500.tc.umn.edu:015/2?> via any WWW browser.  NCSA Mosaic 
for X (2pre6) handles it ok, www on Unix seems to freeze as does 
NCSA Mosaic for Mac (B5).  Havn't tried Lynx yet, but that's next.

The reason I ask is that I have placed a URL in one field of my  record on 
a CSO server which, because the text seems to be returned as <pre>, is 
presented as a link when accessed using Mosaic for X.

It seemsed kinda neat so I'd like to recommend it to people if I was sure 
it was reliable.

Steve.