Posted by Richard Sexton on 12/15/49 11:40

In article <huqdnVMbzYwwVGTeRVnytw@eclipse.net.uk>,
Jim Higson <jh@333.org> wrote:
>Richard Sexton wrote:
>
>>>Even static pages need a server.
>>
>> file://localhost/C:/
>>
>> not if they're local
>
>Fair enough. (although it could be argued that with the file 'protocol' the
>browser acts as the server).
>
>I suppose it *could* be done. I wouldn't want to be the one to update the
>HTML stored locally on every computer though. Kinda does away with the
>whole point of doing it as a web.

Ironically, usenet news does this, the media you're using to say how
hard it would be :-) You can read news localy off of a distant NNTP
host, it takes care of keeping all the local files up to date. So
while it's a bit arcane you could install news software and let it
do its thing and point DOCUMENT_ROOT to the news spool.

Stop grimacing, I DID say it was arcane.



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