[Info-vax] proper file format, attributes for non-binary files served by a web server

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4f1cde18$0$283$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> >     Around here, a file which gets served by the Web server
> > may also get served by the FTP server, and it might also get
> > put into a Zip archive.  Perhaps every program can handle
> > variable-length records properly, and perhaps not.  I would
> > rather have Stream_LF files everywhere, and not have to think
> > any more about them.
> 
> A correct VMS server program should handle all valid
> VMS formats for text files.
> 
> Assuming that non correct VMS servers would prefer
> stream_lf is a weird assumption.

I think the issue is not so much whether it would work (I think we all 
agree that it does) but rather whether the OSU server, say, which is 
written in C, would handle a byterange request more efficiently for a 
file in stream_lf format.  Not being a C programmer, I don't know.

(This particular byterange is just an example; if I understand things 
correctly, it was more or less a hack to enable the browser to display 
something of a PDF file in the days of really slow connections---this is 
probably not an issue today (at least not for people viewing PDF files 
over the web) and it might be more efficient to leave it out.)