Re: Downloading htmlds

Dan Grillo (Dan_Grillo@NeXT.COM)
Sat, 11 Feb 95 02:13:31 -0800

Bruce Gingery writes:
> In RFC #1, Rohit Khare wrote:
>
> -> SPECIFICATION
> -> -------------
>
> -> Foobar.htmld MUST CONTAIN
> -> * index.html
>
> -> it MAY CONTAIN
> -> * alternate indices of the same html content
> -> (index-ascii.html, index-imaged-elements.html)
> -> * referenced files
> -> * application-specific data (.linkdb, .etDocInfo,
> -> other state)
>
>
> May I propose the content file
> foo.htmld/.archivelist
> as a default name for CONTAINED files which should be
> presumed as a single unit for single transfer when
> an HTTP request is made for foo.htmld.tgz
>
> In this case, if foo.htmld/.archivelist exists, at a
> minimum, it will contain a single line with the name
> "index.html" Other files which are part of the
> "package" may also be specified.

I'm not sure I understand. What's wrong with readdir(foo.htmld) as the
way for the server to figure out what's in foo.htmld.some-archive-format?

--dan

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