Re: cvs commit: apache/htdocs/manual index.html

[Rodent of Unusual Size <co...@decus.org>]

>From the fingers of Brian Behlendorf flowed the following:
>
>  Modified:    htdocs/manual  index.html
>  Log:
>  Absolute reference needed, for those looking at the pages directly
>  from a file system, or through a web site not using Multiviews.
>  
>    <LI><A
>  !      HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/jdk-102"
>        >Java's 1.0.2 virtual machine and HTTP/1.1</A>
>  --- 50,56 ----
>    <LI><A
>  !      HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/jdk-102.html"
>        >Java's 1.0.2 virtual machine and HTTP/1.1</A>

    I'm not sure I understand this, since it's an absolute URL pointing
    directly to Taz, which *is* running Multiviews.  Whatever.

    I get the point of the other changes; thanx, Brian.  I guess I just
    assumed that the mirrors would be running multiviews.  Do we have
    any assurance that they're even running Apache? ;->

    <VOICE POMPOUS>As we move into the future</VOICE>, maybe we should
    encourage mirrors to run multiviews?  At least for the mirror
    portion?  I'm an hopeless optimist, but I hope we'll be having
    multilingual versions of some of the pages before the end of the
    calendar year..

    #ken    :-)}

Re: cvs commit: apache/htdocs/manual index.html

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

On Thu, 29 May 1997, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> From the fingers of Brian Behlendorf flowed the following:
> >
> >  Modified:    htdocs/manual  index.html
> >  Log:
> >  Absolute reference needed, for those looking at the pages directly
> >  from a file system, or through a web site not using Multiviews.
> >  
> >    <LI><A
> >  !      HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/jdk-102"
> >        >Java's 1.0.2 virtual machine and HTTP/1.1</A>
> >  --- 50,56 ----
> >    <LI><A
> >  !      HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/jdk-102.html"
> >        >Java's 1.0.2 virtual machine and HTTP/1.1</A>
> 
>     I'm not sure I understand this, since it's an absolute URL pointing
>     directly to Taz, which *is* running Multiviews.  Whatever.

Ah, right - I figured if we have a standard in one place it should be standard
elsewhere, particularly if in some far-off future "www.apache.org" was on a
number of different IP numbers.

>     I get the point of the other changes; thanx, Brian.  I guess I just
>     assumed that the mirrors would be running multiviews.  

Hmm, not a safe assumption, and there's nothing on www.apache.org currently
that requires it. I can barely require mirrors to run HTTP - those that are
FTP-only are relegated to the /dist directory. 

Multiple languages using apache's con-neg would be a very interesting feature.
If someone from the group wanted to tackle that, I'd support it.  The first
wish list item for the mirrors, though, would be to get them to use cvsup to
update the mirrors, or get ProxyPass to work properly.

	Brian

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