On Aug 23, 2000, Edward Reid wrote:
>
> At 04:35 PM -0400 08/22/00, Robert Kiesling wrote:
> >I'm not certain, however, that a HTTP interface would widen
> >the pool of potential moderators, if it disqualifies 75 percent of the
> >FAQ maintainers, including myself.
>
> Sorry if I wasn't clear ... the 75% exclusion applies to a
> character-mode interface, such as telnet to a Unix server. An HTTP
> interface works OK with larger latencies because data are transmitted
> in blocks (many bytes per packet) even upstream, unlike character-mode
> telnet which transmits upstream as one byte per packet.
I know that there are character-mode HTTP clients for U**X and
derivatives, although I don't know if there are any for other
operating systems. Most of them I don't think allow plug-ins or
scripting on the client system, but it sounds like most of the HTML
generation is upstream, anyway. Most people, I assume, think of a GUI
program when they think of HTML browsers.
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