Re: Search History

Heath Rezabek (mailto:hrezabek@FIAT.GSLIS.UTEXAS.EDU)
Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:56:20 -0600

Message-Id: <199602011711.LAA11913@library.wustl.edu>
Date:         Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:56:20 -0600
From: Heath Rezabek <mailto:hrezabek@FIAT.GSLIS.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Search History
To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>

On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Chris Howard wrote:

> The "best" solution, in my opinion, would be a freely available browser
> that understood z39.50 protocol.

> I my humble and possible misguided opinion, having the server save
> state information for HTTP connections is an ugly hack.
> Unfortunately, sometimes there just isn't any other way to do what
> needs to be done.

Hm! Anyone here feel close enough to NCSA's Software Developmen Group to suggest it as a feature in a future Mosaic release? It seems like such functionality would hardly run counter to their committment to established protocol sets & non-proprietary releases. [It'd also be an ironic and imho fitting turnabout to see Mosaic implement some standardized functionality which Netscrape had yet to re-Invent...] [editorial-mode off]

Heath M Rezabek mailto:hrezabek@fiat.gslis.utexas.edu http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~hrezabek/index.html GSLIS Masters Candidate University of Texas at Austin Technical Staff Assistant Perry-Castaneda Library EIC