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Hi,

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 09:11:56PM +0200, Holger Petersen wrote:
> There was a discussion about getting incoming FAXes into a Web-Page.
> Gert said, that he was awaiting some Java-Code...
> 
> I thought about the following solution:
> 
> 1) create some subdirectory like ~/public_html/fax
> 
> 2) put a .htaccess - file into it to let no other people see your faxes :-)
> 
> 3) take " /usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax/new_fax and add some lines into
>    it's while-loop:

I don't want to store the images in GIF/JPEG/whatever format on the
server (code for *that* is long done :-) ), I want to send them over
in G3 format, because it's "native" and quite small, and I want to do
all the scaling and displaying in the client.

Using GIF won't give me scaling in the client, and I have to store all
files twice on the server -- which is why I want something better.

[..]
> After this change, you can do " http://localhost/~yourname/fax "
> and get a listing of all Faxes. One may then click on anyone...
> 
> What's wrong with this way?

Much waste of disk space, CPU cycles, no fancy menus, etc. - Neko
already has a nice WWW frontend for this, which will only generate
the images on-demad, but it's still a waste of disk space to keep all
documents as GIF and as G3.

gert
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