about the Perl 4 version
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Sun, 05 Mar 1995 05:53:21 -0800
> With all this discussion on the perl 5 library, what is happening to the
> perl 4 version. Has someone created a better FTP module for it,
> say one which allows `HEAD' requests to return if the file/directory
> exists and what its date is etc? Or at least does NOT save to a
> file and returning a fake html document? :-( What about a gopher module?
The perl 4 version is not dead -- just hibernating until I get the
relative URL and HTTP/1.0 specifications published as RFCs. Shortly before
that happens, I'll have enough free time to integrate some of the contrib
stuff (whatever is appropriate) and make the library fully HTTP/1.0
compliant. However, once that is done (and any resulting bugs fixed),
I too will change to perl 5.
The mailing list and archive at UCI will both remain active for at least
the next two years (until I graduate) and after that it will either move
to a new maintainer (possibly W3C) or move with me. I'll copy the Perl 5
version here when it becomes relatively stable. I had hoped to have a
fully-automated, CVS-based web server that would allow people to contribute
their own changes, but that may have to wait until after summer.
Given the number of subscribe and unsubscribe requests that came in while
I was at a conference in Ohio, I think I need to switch to an automated
listserver. Does anyone have a preference (e.g. listproc, majordomo, etc.)?
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>