Re: [Fwd: Rotating Banners ... (was Re: LinkExchange)]

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 14516
interpreted = N
texte = I agree. There are lots of ways to carefully go out and get data - we should have some in the future as I mentioned.John.>John Hill wrote at 07/11/97 9:16 pm>>>I understand your point, and we've been working on some methods to go out >>and get data remotely, however, the potential for remote data to slow your >>Web site down to a crawl is somewhat scary - especially since you would be >>waiting the remote site before returning a page. The ability to let the >>browser bring in the remote data (using conventional HTML tags) does a >>pretty good job. That being said, I'm sure we will have some options in >>the near future to do this.>>John,>>I absolutely agree, trying to access files from (other) remote sites is a >scary option, and is well demonstrated by some of those using >LinkExchange banners. Not only do you need to have the browser do another >DNS lookup but you also have to worry about whether the remote server is >available and that your target content has not been moved.>>However, I feel it's better for this to be a scary *option*, that the >webadmin can decide to take a risk on or not, than for it not to be >available at all.>>It could for instance be that the admin merely wants to pass some >handling off to another server within his control, this is blocked just >as if he wanted to access something on the other side of the world.>>>-- CliveJohn A. HillPacific Coast Softwarehttp://www.smithmicro.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

I agree. There are lots of ways to carefully go out and get data - we should have some in the future as I mentioned.John.>John Hill wrote at 07/11/97 9:16 pm>>>I understand your point, and we've been working on some methods to go out >>and get data remotely, however, the potential for remote data to slow your >>Web site down to a crawl is somewhat scary - especially since you would be >>waiting the remote site before returning a page. The ability to let the >>browser bring in the remote data (using conventional HTML tags) does a >>pretty good job. That being said, I'm sure we will have some options in >>the near future to do this.>>John,>>I absolutely agree, trying to access files from (other) remote sites is a >scary option, and is well demonstrated by some of those using >LinkExchange banners. Not only do you need to have the browser do another >DNS lookup but you also have to worry about whether the remote server is >available and that your target content has not been moved.>>However, I feel it's better for this to be a scary *option*, that the >webadmin can decide to take a risk on or not, than for it not to be >available at all.>>It could for instance be that the admin merely wants to pass some >handling off to another server within his control, this is blocked just >as if he wanted to access something on the other side of the world.>>>-- CliveJohn A. HillPacific Coast Softwarehttp://www.smithmicro.com John Hill

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