From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:02:03 +0800
To: alan@ctrl-alt-del.com
Subject: Re: New use for  Eternity Server
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970818140727.20920I-100000@www.ctrl-alt-del.com>
Message-ID: <199708182307.AAA00846@server.test.net>
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Alan <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com> writes:
> > Or better yet, just compress the damn things with GZIP or ZIP, or
> > whatever, and have the servers handle them as binaries.  Would work better
> > in the long run anyway since it will waste less space.
> 
> This assumes that the user has support for those compression formats.  (I
> run into this too much with Solaris and Windows, for various reasons.)
> 
> > Can current eternity servers handle plain binaries?
> 
> And if they do, what encoding format do they support?  (Mime, Base-64,
> and/or uuencode.)

It should support pretty much anything.  Just treat eternity documents
like standard web documents...  Anything you can do in a web document
you can do in a web document stored in eternity.  (Except, eternity
doesn't host your cgi's for you :-)

If you want a .zip file, well link to it like this:

	pgp50i.zip 

if you want to reference it in an eternity document.  Submit the .zip
file the same way you would a .html file or .gif file.

(Eternity supports relative, site relative and absolute URLs).

You could also use the url for the zip file directly:

	http://pgp.eternity/pgp50i.zip

Or use lynx to download it:

	lynx -dump http://www.replay.com/aba/cgi-bin/eternity.cgi?url=http://pgp.eternity/pgp50i.zip > pgp50i.zip

Or whatever.

However pgp50i isn't censored outside the US, so why not just download
it from Stale's site in Norway?

(You could view the ITAR/EAR restrictions as censorship of those
wishing to publish pgp inside the US... but the simple solution is
jurisdiction shopping... anywhere but the US, Iraq, etc).

Adam
-- 
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