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Wayne--

EnterpriseWeb *does* provide this function, but as a user exit. Your exit
gets control right after we've parsed the initial HTTP header (usually a
GET or POST), and you can change any part of it to look like anything you
like. We have customers doing exactly what you want using this exit. We
also supply sample code that shows you how to turn PUT and DELETE requests
into POSTs so that they can be handled by a CGI.

If you want more detail, or even sample code, I'll get it for you off-list.

/Mike Lude
Beyond Software Inc.

At 04:19 PM 04/29/1999 EDT, you wrote:
>By "local mapping", I mean the web server has control information that
>makes one directory structure look like it's attached at some point in
>another.  It would seem relatively easy to do, but I haven't seen it (in
>the VM products).
>
>For example, having a tilde in important addresses (a campus, a
>department, etc.) is unacceptable.  To provide the best foot forward, a
>web server should be able to be set up so that we can provide
>
>   http://domain/department/otherstuff
>
>where the "directory" department is virtualized and actually served not
>from the web servers root domain, but from someplace else, such as
>joeuser.vmwebserver or joeuser.webshare
>
>Other servers allow this, why not VM-based servers?
>
>The gain is that I can give JOEUSER an SFS filespace and SFS will
>monitor his occupancy.  He can FTP into it with (some) web editors and
>FTP clients.  If I allow him to use a subdirectory of my web server, I
>have no control over how much he stores there AND he can't create and
>delete subdirectories without my doing it for him!
>
>At least for my situation, BFS cannot yet be part of the solution nor do
>I wish an SFS ESM.
>
>Syntactically, this would seem easy.  For example, with DIRMAP files,
>one can specify a virtual directory with an entry
>
>   dir department somename
>
>and the files in logical directory "department" are served according to
>the information in "somename dirmap" in the same directory.  A simple
>extension might allow
>
>   dir department vmsysu:joeuser.vmwebserver
>
>Now, the files in the virtual directory "department" will be processed
>from the specified SFS directory.
>
>Before I ask my vendor (again), does any VM web server support something
>like this?
>
>Would this facility be useful to you if it were in your VM web server?
>
>Thanks for reading, wayne
>
>Wayne T. Smith              Systems Group -- UNET Technology Services
>wts@Maine.edu               University of Maine System
>
>