Re: HTML-Info design

[Achim Gratz]

Am 29.12.2014 um 01:14 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> > `M-x eww RET
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/index.html RET'
>
> > as you claimed.
>
> > Instead it would be:
>
> > M-x eww file:///home/nicferrier/emacs-24.4/share/info...
>
> No, it's obvious to me that we want to use a "remote URL" and then have
> Emacs internally redirect this to a local version, when available.

Yes, but most certainly not from this particular URL as there is no way 
of knowing which version of the manual was meant by it.  So at the 
minimum you'd have to do a HEAD request and check if you've cached that 
exact file earlier.  And you'd need to read that file in full the first 
time to compare it with the local version.  Since you want to skip a 
proper URI scheme you need to have a canonical URL that provides the 
same information and allows an off-line info reader to skip going to the 
network altogether.


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Achim.

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