I do think it is a good thing to be able to do this, but I'm unclear
as to an easy transformation of an http URL to an AFS (or file) URL.
For example, I know that these two URLs are functionally equivalent:
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/home_page.html
file://localhost/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/w/a/warlord/WWW/home_page.html
(well, they are equivalent if you have AFS and know about the Athena
AFS cell and have packet-connectivity to the athena servers, etc.)
However I can't think of an easy way for the *client* to know that
these are equivalent. The first URL could just have easily been a
local file on the server www.mit.edu!
I'd like anyone with a WWW client to be able to see my home_page, and
although it would be easier (and probably faster) for people with AFS
to look at it directly, not everybody does have it.
So, what is a way that, give only the knowledge of the first URL, you
can find the second URL?
-derek
