In message <3.0.5.32.19990107111957.03902100@homer>, Bill Frantz <frantz@communities.com> wrote:
>MarkM asked me over dinner last night where we could bring up a Vat
>Location Service (VLS). The basic requirements are a 24/7 Internet
>connected machine capable of running a Java virtual machine.
>
>Well, on the way home, my wife Peri mentioned the magic word, HTTP. It
>occurs to me that if we implemented a HTTP/CGI based VLS, then we could put
>up a VLS on any ISP that supported user CGIs. Doing this would require
>some changes in DataComm to recognize a URL for the search path and run the
>VLS under HTTP protocol, but I think that is quite doable.
>
>Reactions?
I always thought that an ASCII protocol version would be interesting...
-eric