WAIS in URL's

Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Thu, 8 Jul 93 16:22:36 -0500

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Joe Germuska writes:
> I'm not quite clear on whether or not to use a URL:
> wais://cmns-moon.think.com:210/WWP
> or
> http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8001/cmns-moon.think.com:210/WWP
>
> Many people report errors when the wais: URL is used, but I would think
> it'd be better to use that and let each client use the best WAIS gateway
> available than to always direct them to one site (that is probably already
> heavily enough trafficked)
>
> Advice?
> thanks,
> Joe
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Mosaic is, so far as I can tell, completely busted wrt wais: url
support (and the associated gateway environment variable). I haven't
tracked this down as it will be irrelevant with the coming (real soon
now) native WAIS support under libwww2.

Marc

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