HTTP support for TeX? was: Re: [tex-live] Re: schedule for tl2004

[Hans Hagen]

At 13:45 10/05/2004, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:


>Stefan Ulrich wrote:
>>>any chance on \input http://someplace.somewhere.org/test.tex
>>
>>>being supported (currently only on windows)
>>
>>Are many people actually using this feature?
>
>the usage to me would be
>
>  \includegraphics{http://www.foo.bar/images/logo.png}
>
>which is something one does often on web pages. since I
>write my web pages in XML, which I translates to TeX to get PDF versions 
>of, working round this is a pain.

it also makes it possible to fetch data from content management systems and 
databases; some control over local caching is needed then (multiple tex 
runs) but fabrice's fetcher already supports that; it opens a new world of 
apps

Hans