Targazer gateway

The targazer gateway lets a WWW client treat a unix tar file as a 
directory of indivual files. The gateway runs as a detached process that 
declares itself a known DECnet object. The HTTP server connects to the 
object as if it were a WWWEXEC script by using a special format of the 
exec configuration rule (e.g. exec /tarserv/* 
archive::"169="tar_archive:). 
When the targazer gateway gets a request, the first element after the 
script directory (i.e. /tarserv/) is considered the name of the tar 
archive to access. The part after the tar file name is considered to be 
a filename within the archive to be extracted. If just the tar file name 
is present, a HTML directory of the tar file contents is returned. 
In order to locate elements within the archive, targazer will read the 
entire file and build a sorted index of the files it contains. For 
efficiency, the gateway caches indices it builds so that subsequent 
accesses won't require a rescan of the entire file. 
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David Jones, Ohio State University