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Yup you got it. Even if the hosting is done on site, the webmaster and sysadmin are often two different people. We'll just go with the <redirect> approach, it makes sense in our application and probably will make sense to our users. For this app, btw, the channel developers (there are hundreds of them at all sizes and shapes of sites) are mostly webmasters not system operators. Dave At 11:20 PM 5/10/99 , Don Park wrote: > > On the server side, there's the question of how to flag that such > > a redirection is needed. Different servers have different solutions > > for that, and I suspect you're trying to avoid needing to spend > > the effort in the server to see if it's needed. You implied there > > was structural logic that could be applied to speed things up; > > that's the approach I'd take, then! > >Actually, Dave Winer was talking about an old issue which is that most web >sites consist of passive contents only. Most web sites are hosted by ISPs >and contents are poured in using FTP. Active components such as scripts, >CGI, or servlets are not available and changes to the server is not even >dreamed of. > >This issue came up almost two years ago during a dinner (many Net folks were >there although I can only remember Dr. Goldfarb and Dave Siegel) in context >of XML. Our conclusion was that shrinkwrapped vertical website builder >applications that generates XML contents will be coming soon to solve the >most of the problem. I think we overestimated the rate of change because >most of us saw the problem as a business opportunity. > >Best, > >Don Park >Docuverse > > > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on >CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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