WAIS -> WWW Gateway and Titles

David Bianco (bianco@giant.larc.nasa.gov)
Mon, 28 Feb 1994 14:15:59 --100


Mark Krause writes:
> Has anyone developed a WAIS to WWW gateway that will present a
> user-friendly title (i.e. the text between <TITLE> and </TITLE>)
> instead of the sometimes cryptic URL that is currently presented
> to the user?
>
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> Mark A. Krause mkrause@mitre.org
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Hmm... no gateway, but I do have a version of freeWAIS which
recognizes the HTML type and picks the <TITLE></TITLE> pair out
exactly as you suggest. I've got patches to freeWAIS-0.202 if anyone
wants 'em...

David