Re: [ubl-csc] Pseudo PURL trick for subcommittee home page

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@sun.com>]

FWIW: I have asked Karl (last week) whether there is any intention of
enabling ftp access; the answer at that time was unequivocal: no.

G. Ken Holman wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> One of the issues I wanted to discuss is the web address for subcommittees.
> 
> Until such time as we can have the access to build subdirectories, I 
> have a workaround in use for my committee.  For FPSC I created the 
> attached index.html file and had Sharon upload it to the directory:
> 
>   http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/fpsc/
> 
> This HTML page has a redirection command recognized by browsers to "go 
> to a different page" instead of the one that is addressed.  The page 
> that I've redirected visitors to is the new KAVI interface URL:
> 
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl-fpsc
> 
> By using the redirection, it acts a bit like a PURL (Persistent URL) in 
> that any future changes to the KAVI URL can be accommodated by the 
> redirection file and the published address of "/ubl/fpsc/" will still 
> work for visitors regardless of where we redirect them to once the get 
> to the PURL address.
> 
> But I see this as only short term: such redirection does not redirect 
> addresses in subdirectories of the directory, such that creating a 
> subdirectory "/ubl/fpsc/v0p70/beta1" will not be recognized as 
> subdirectories from the resolved PURL found in "/ubl/fpsc/".  I gather 
> some servers *will* do such recognition, but I haven't had the time to 
> determine if KAVI will allow it.
> 
> I hope this is useful in the short term until we get FTP access to our 
> subdirectories; at that point we could have a public index page we craft 
> ourselves with a link to the collaboration system of KAVI and links to 
> the locally managed files for the public's use.
> 
> Or whatever it is we are given .....
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> ...................... Ken
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>   UBL Forms Presentation Subcommittee (link to home page)
> 
> To reach the home page, please proceed to 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl-fpsc.
> 
> If your browser supports automatic redirection, this link will be 
> automatically traversed.
> 
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