This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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serverless html
Article: 7427 of alt.hackers From: emf@scf.nmsu.edu (Mr. Misanthrope) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: serverless html Date: 20 Feb 1995 17:07:29 GMT Organization: Student Computing Facility, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces Lines: 22 Approved: hardly Message-ID: 3iai8h$jm3@dns1.NMSU.Edu NNTP-Posting-Host: freedom.nmsu.edu Status: RO
In article <3i8bj0$s48@netnews.upenn.edu> lzeltser@blue.seas.upenn.edu (Lenny Zeltser) writes: >> > Finger! http://rsrch1.cit.cornell.edu:79/ hab3 >> 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 a very reliable finger mechanism for html. url is gopher://site.foo.bar:79/0user that zero has to be there before the username. at any rate, you'll get a copy of .plan that way. much less dependant on other sites than the cgi finger server. ObHack: using a cgi-bin script to trick Mosaic with a flood of Application-Type: lines to send an "inline sound" after the page has been transferred. trouble is, it rarely works on any browser that isnt my own. not entirely sure why. -- Erik Fichtner (techs@scf.nmsu.edu) [http://scf.nmsu.edu/~emf/] "Since when was genius found respectable?" - Elizabeth Barret Browning
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