Re: Wanted: converter of HTML links
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > [...]
> > - read file.html
> > - for each link <a href="foo.html">, if foo.html exists,
> -----------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > convert the link to foo.html.gz instead
> > - otherwise, do not modify the link
> > - output is either to file.html.fixed or file.html (replace
> > original with modified version)
>
> you'll get a chicken-egg here.
> If the output of the conversion depends on the state of the files
> installed by other packages, you'll need to re-convert the files at some
> later stage, and what when the file you depend on have to be converted,
> or has been converted?
>
> While the program requested seems trivial, maybe you should consider the
> idea of patching the server to accept a request for foo.html
> uncompressing foo.html.gz on the fly. (does a browser tell the server if
> he is able to unzip a compressed file?)
For apache, adding a directive 'AddHandler gunzip .gz' (not sure of
the exact syntax) does the trick, ie: the server decompress on the fly;
anyway, I'd like to be able to read my docs without starting a www server.
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