> Does anyone know of a site that has hacked the NCSA Mosaic (client)
> to be AFS aware. That is, to take a URL and if it's a local host
> with AFS then prepend to the URL the "file://localhost/afs..." path to
> the document.
No. And, speaking as an AFS site, I don't want this. HTTP and FTP are much
more suitable protocols, and since Kerberos authentication will be within HTTP
before long (I hope), the one remaining reason for using AFS, that of
authentication and access control, will no longer be relevant.
May I ask why you think this is a good thing? There are not that many sites
using AFS (compared to the number of HTTP servers already out there), and it
seems daft to put effort into a feature which won't be used a great deal. I'm
sure that a very high proportion of AFS users have WWW servers, and as they
all use Kerberos, setting up Kerberised HTTP should be easy.
IMHO, browsers should *always* see file:/whatever (with no //server name) as
local, and never try to use ftp or anything else. If you can see it, you can
see it; if you can't, you can't. If there's a hostname included, use ftp,
nothing else. Relative references generated by a ftp directory should use ftp:
URLs, so there's no danger of ambiguity. Nothing else. Whether or not the file
resides in AFS is irrelevant; it could equally be used to say "View the
contents of <a href="file:/etc/named.boot">named.boot</a>", so that
documentation shows the user what her own machine looks like. Try this with
Mosaic and watch it fail.
> But the NCSA people are on a different grind stone now and I don't
> think intrested in working out this minor detail.
Mosaic (and the addressing rules) should be fixed so that browsers *never* try
to insert a server name where none is given. I strongly feel that this is a
bug and needs fixing generally. But neither NCSA staff nor anyone else should
waste time on AFS specific hacks.
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