Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Easier Web Document Creation: open()

Author:	fisherm@tce.com
Posted:	6/9/1999; 7:55:19 AM
Topic:	Easier Web Document Creation: open()
Msg #:	7144
Prev/Next:	7143 / 7145

A thread is going on perl5-porters about this topic. The basic proposal is to allow (example in Perl): open(IFH, "http://davenet.userland.com"); as well as the conventional: open(IFH, "h:/metapage/userland/davenet/index.html");

This could be extended through the under-used HTTP PUT directive, which I think will become much more useful now that WebDAV is here. Specifically, to write a Web page one would do (in Perl): open(OFH, ">http://davenet.userland.com"); (the Perl syntax for creating/overwriting a file). With this idea, File -> New and File -> Open could be extended to just accept a URL as the location. If someone really has a file called:

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