Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:12:13 -0500 From: Mathew KANNER <mat@cs.mcgill.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: httpfs Message-ID: <20010310111213.A13278@cs.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message [httpfs] as of Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 03:15:15AM -0800 References: <20010310031515.A8998@mollari.cthul.hu>
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On Mar 10, Kris Kennaway wrote: > A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to > have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have > this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs > works by handing off everything to a userland daemon which handles the > actual transaction request, so you could easily imagine extending it > to provide an http method similar to the tcp method it currently has > for initiating tcp connections. [...] Reminds me on something I read. http://zowie.metnet.navy.mil/~oleg/ftp/USENIX99/ --Mat -- Mathew Kanner <mat@CS.McGill.CA> Sys Admin at large Obtuse quote: He [not me] understands: "This field of perception is void of perception of man." -- The Quintessence of Buddhism To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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