# Web for MOO?

Andrew Wilson (andrew@tees.elsevier.co.uk)
Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:40:21 PST

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    > At 01:49 PM 10/31/95 PST, you wrote:
    > >However, it implements its own hack of a protocol for using html and other
    > >items, rather than using any number of pleothora of protocols available
    > >(such as MCP).
    >
    > >Frankly, I think chaco/pueblo would get further if they would not require
    > >you to do netscap-isms like 'Enhanced for Pueblo/1.3' in the motd.
    >
    > Yeah, that opening "#$#mcp version: 1.0" handshake for MCP is much less
    >  intrusive.

    Firstly, the #$#mcp ... only happens if you've already determined that
    your client is able to handle mcp using client options.  MOO remembers
    your client's state and responds to you the next time you connect
    assuming that things haven't changed.

    Jupiter (I believe) doesn't work on this principal, preferring the
    client to tell the server what it's capable of handling each time it
    effects a connection.

    If you grep through JHCore you'll find a #$#client-options (or some
    similar foo) which is sitting there waiting for the client to be first
    to say what sorts of transactions it'd like to handle.

    At present I dunno if any tk* clients use this particular hook.  Mine
    doesn't but I'm majorly clueless these days so that might explain it.

    > At least Pueblo actually *wrote* a featureful multimedia client for major
    >  home platforms rather than yammering at people to "get Linux" so they can
    >  run the client for their "perfect protocol".

    I understand that tk/tcl will be 'out' for PC/MAc platforms shortly,
    this has pretty major implications for people 'playing' with tk*
    clients.  Suddenly the potential userbase is enourmous, people make
    vast fortunes, castled empires rise and fall on the distant deserts of
    the 2nd moon, er, wait...

    Pueblo really is quite nice.  I wish my toy could do those things.  I
    mean, it can speak, but that's not much is it.  bwAHAHAHAH...

    > -Quinn
    > -http://www.vv.com/~quinn/

    Ay.