# URLs and "routing" information

Markus Stumpf (stumpf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
Wed, 7 Jul 1993 14:41:55 +0200

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    Subject: URLs and "routing" information

    From: Markus Stumpf <stumpf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Date: 	Wed, 7 Jul 1993 14:41:55 +0200

    Message-Id: <93Jul7.124202mesz.311355@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

Hello!

We have a workstation cluster, where all the students of the first year
are put on. They have full email and USENET news access, but no online
services such as ftp, telnet, www, gopher, etc. (no default routes on
these machines) outside the campus net.

I have just taken a look at go4gw and I think the idea behind is
rather good.
As I understood it (it was a short look) it rewrites the addresses of
the gopher objects, so that the host is always the gateway server and
the real host becomes part of the object-path.

I think it would be a good idea to have this kind of routing in URLs, too!
It would then be rather simple to write gateway servers to other
services which may not be accessible directly or to write servers to sit
on firewalls.

Would this be possible?

Ciao
\Maex

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     Markus Stumpf                        Markus.Stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE

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