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Index of Subjects On Thu, 11 May 2000, Mark Ronald Rushton wrote: > Good evening, > > Michael: Community Support directory is now ready to be switched over. > All new files have extension .shtml and interlinking has been checked. > > Everyone: At your leisure, please examine the pages to ensure that I have > correctly transferred the info (eg. titles, etc.). > > Note: Community Support index links to the Religion section. I will need > to change one link on the CommunitySupport.shtml page once the Religion > area has been modified with the .shtml files. Please let me know when > that's done. Hi Mark, I'm planning on getting started on the Religion Page on Friday night, I'll let you know when it's done. But as Michael reported, the system has been configured, as I understand it, to be flexible about which extensions are used - that is, if x.shtml exists it will be used whether the user or link asked for http://.../x.shtml or http://.../x.html Of course that breaks for file://localhost until symlinks are put in place. As far as the use of Icons or icons is concerned, it matters little - the extra time is only the time it takes for the cpu to search out the second reference in the directory buffer, which will normally be in memory anyway, so should only take a few microseconds. On the other hand, your question about the use of the slash points out a potential problem. In general /Icons/ and Icons/ would not point to the same location. [You will remember all the trouble we have always had to go through to make links workable through both Lynx using file://localhost reference and all browsers using http://. Now that SSI has become much more efficient than it was 5 years ago, and our server is much faster, we dare to make it our standard usage to reference all files through http://] To be more specific, Icons/ always refers to a folder/directory named "Icons" that is located within the directory of the current page (or relative to the A base location if used) On CCN this was always the preferred usage because all browsers could use it. On the other hand, /Icons/ refers to two places, depending on how it is referenced. If using http:// on chebucto, then /Icons/ refers to the Icons directory in the info root, which is the base directory for the http server. On the other hand, if using file://localhost reference i.e. Lynx local files, then /Info/ would be a directory at the "root" or top level of the file system. Remember also that the references within a page will inherit the mode of reference of the page, so if you access the page using http://, then all the contents within the page that are not fully specified will use http to request the file. Conversely, if you accessed the page using file://localhost, then partial references would also try to use file://localhost to request the file. For display purposes, however, dead links to the Icons in Lynx using file://localhost are probably not very serious. This gets further complicated when you move to your own system, because you would then be using implicit (or possibly explicit) file://localhost for references to your own hard drive. But on Macintosh file systems, the path is defined beginning from the drive name, so /Info/myicon.gif would represent a file "Myicon.gif" located on the disk called "Info". [Perhaps a disk image, a floppy, or a Ramdrive?] (Mac and Windows are not case sensitive for these purposes.) Windows (and DOS) machines have a default drive so they may behave somewhat more like the file://localhost behaviour on the server, i.e. in Lynx. [You can set up an http server on your machine, but should not have it running while connected to the net, unless you take the trouble to set it up securely. Otherwise someone might be browsing your files :-( ] Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca (902) H 826-7496 CCN Postmaster http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa146/ W 426-4894 CSuite Technical Workshop Religion Page Editor, Chebucto Community Network http://www.chebucto.ns.ca
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