This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: serverless http connections
Article: 7423 of alt.hackers From: lzeltser@blue.seas.upenn.edu (Lenny Zeltser) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: serverless http connections Date: 19 Feb 1995 21:01:20 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 23 Approved: Memyselfandi Message-ID: 3i8bj0$s48@netnews.upenn.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: blue.seas.upenn.edu Status: RO
In article <3i5nh1$12io@saba.info.ucla.edu>, Ami Fischman <a540ami@pic.ucla.edu> wrote: > > In article AzI@nova.sarnoff.com, Hans <hab3@cornell.edu> writes: > > ObHack: I have no external http server, so.....I stuck my home page in my > > Finger! http://rsrch1.cit.cornell.edu:79/ hab3 [stuff skipped] > A more reliable finger > scheme is to find a host with the cgi-bin distribution, and go: > http://host.with.cgi.bin/cgi-bin/finger?username@your.host > and put your page in .plan. These are great ideas! Another challenge would be to have your finger display am HTML page when it gets a request through a WWW client, and regular user info when it's a standard finger request. ObHack: Implementing the challenge above :) Check out a page at http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/htbin/finger?entry=lzeltser@seas.upenn.edu It seems to work fine with Netscape, but Mosaic and Lynx have some trouble interpreting HTML's <a href=" "> command. (Something for me to work on) -- Lenny
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