Subject:
            RCF ROOT file access via http
     Date:
            Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:49:53 -0500
     From:
            Torre Wenaus 

You can now access (small!) ROOT files at RCF via the www.star.bnl.gov server
(sol), thanks to the Apache module that Fons Rademakers wrote.

eg.
root4star
> TWebFile f("http://www.star.bnl.gov/~wenaus/muons_100_ctb.root")

will open (readonly) the file ~wenaus/WWW/muons_100_ctb.root

Note that the available file access is the same as for other web server
operations; paths known to the web server can be accessed, not the whole file
system. Do not use it for big files as httpd is not very efficient. It is eg.
a convenient way of 'publishing' histogram results. More info is at
http://root.cern.ch/root/WebFile.html

The Apache server is running stably on sol, is integrated into the startup,
and should be a reasonably stable and permanent facility.

 - Torre

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