Re: Debian WWW standards version 2.1
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> | 3. No text, and deleting the two slashes before <hostname>,
> | as in the form "http:/debian/foo.html".
and later
> | For example a URL to another file in the same
> | directory tree can be of the form "http:../dwww/foo.html",
> | and a URL to another file in a different directory tree can be
> | of the form "http:/debian/ROM.documents/foo.html".
How should these URLs work?
I wasn't able to use this type with lynx nor Netscape (using for example
http:/dwww/dwww.html while http://localhost/dwww/dwww.html works.
> |2.4 Access to Documents Using the "file:" Protocol
> |
> |If all WWW servers now support this form, ...
Do you mean Web browsers?
> |it may be possible to leave the protocol portion "http:" out of URLs.
I don't understand. URLs are not valid without a protocol.
Maybe you are talking of Anchors?
"to leave the protocol portion "http:" out of HREF attribute in Anchors"
> | We should note however that the file protocol is not useful for
> | CGI scripts, and that we intend to provide a large number of
> | run-time translated documents via CGI scripts. Thus,
> | the "file:" protocol may be of marginal usefulness.
CGI is unreplaceable for searching and for pages built on demand;
translation can be pre-made and put in a CD, for example.
ciao,
Fabrizio
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