From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 10 8:13:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17E637B718; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 08:13:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mat@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca) Received: (from mat@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA14413; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:12:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:12:13 -0500 From: Mathew KANNER To: Kris Kennaway Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: httpfs Message-ID: <20010310111213.A13278@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <20010310031515.A8998@mollari.cthul.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message [httpfs] as of Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 03:15:15AM -0800 Organization: I speak for myself, operating in Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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