Linked by Will Varfar on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 05:32 UTC
This article offers feature suggestions to budding OS developers looking for that neat edge.
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* This is already possible in PHP (fopen())
* This is already possible in all KDE apps via KIO slaves (all file dialogs and mounting via KIO Fuse)
* This is already possible in Gnome apps via Gnome-VFS (all file dialogs in Gnome apps)
* This is already possible with some kernel modules like LUFS (this supports mounting remote file systems)
* This is already possible by this HTTP (LD_PRELOAD) hack for GLIBC: http://www.hping.org/netbrake/
The last one comes the closest to your ideas, you can just do a "cat http://google.com/search?q=hello" from your command line after preloading the netbrake lib.