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| author | Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> | 2018-10-29 14:51:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2018-10-29 21:07:04 +0100 |
| commit | 9cdfa70767a880d705fb65ea03d0f304e94f5ae2 (patch) | |
| tree | f5d8f1daa6058976a4258f7023eb75472def3972 /hurd/translator | |
| parent | eefa23caef42badc80b500eacc7e48d8b75494a7 (diff) | |
I explained that the gopherfs is defunct and pointed to the httpfs page. I mentioned that the xattr work is now finished. I added some commentary on the deficiencies page.
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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/gopherfs.mdwn | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/httpfs.mdwn | 1 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/gopherfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/gopherfs.mdwn index db89a136..7827f08d 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/gopherfs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/gopherfs.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] `gopherfs` is a virtual filesystem allowing you to access Gopher sites. +[[!template id=highlight text="""/!\ Obsolete /!\ + +--- +The gopher protocol has largely been replaced by the hypertext transfer protocol ([[http|hurd/translator/httpfs]]). + +"""]] # Source diff --git a/hurd/translator/httpfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/httpfs.mdwn index dc4a62f7..8b02aa06 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/httpfs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/httpfs.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] `httpfs` is a virtual filesystem allowing you to access web pages and files. +While the httpfs translator works, it is only suitable for very simple use cases: it just provides the actual file contents downloaded from the URL, but no additional status information that are necessary for interactive use. (Progress indication, error codes, HTTP redirects etc.) # Source |