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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.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: 7434 of alt.hackers From: lzeltser@red.seas.upenn.edu (Lenny Zeltser) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: serverless http connections Date: 21 Feb 1995 16:16:11 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 28 Approved: memyselfandi Message-ID: 3id3kb$aqg@netnews.upenn.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: red.seas.upenn.edu Status: RO
In article <3i8bj0$s48@netnews.upenn.edu>,I wrote: >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) I was able to get rid of the small problems I was having with non-Netscape clients. Silly me, I was missing a " at the end of the command! Netscape, though, was actually smart enough to interpret it anyway. (Long live Netscape! :) I need to make a small correction to the address of my "finger page"... It's now http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/htbin/finger?entry=lzeltser@blue.seas.upenn.edu The original one didn't work all the time :) ObPlainHack: Reading my e-mail by manually connecting to machine's POP server port. Lame, but hey, no hack is to small, isn't that the motto of the day? -- Lenny
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