On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Benjamin Coates wrote:
> >From "Mark J. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Benjamin Coates wrote:
> >
> >> >From "Mark J. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >> > 2) When the filename is omitted, it is assumed to be "index.html",
> >> >like a Web server does. We can thus represent the vast majority of MSKs as
> >> >keys like "freenet:pigdogjournal//".
> >>
> >> Why not just add an entry for the empty string into the mapfile if you
> wanted
> >> this?
> >
> >Hrmmm. index.html is very intuitive, it doesn't require any weird stuff
> >done by the insertion client, and there's no reason why not.
> >
> >--
> >Mark Roberts
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Well, I might want the root entry in my map to be something else... Can we at
> least have the file name only assume "index.html" if "" isn't found?
The root entry could be named "zarkney" for all we care. Using nothing
makes parsing the file difficult and has no advantage over using
index.html. These things are going to be used 99.9% of the time for
inserting Web sites, and Web sites assume index.html, so why change?
--
Mark Roberts
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