Subj : Escape Sequences to initiate HTTP transfers
To   : All
From : deepthaw
Date : Mon Nov 20 2023 08:44 am

Just brainstorming here but...

I'm stubborn AF and insist on using period-accurate (aka my old and shitty 486 running MS-DOS 6.22) hardware when accessing BBS's. However, I'm almost at my wit's end on using a wifimodem because it mangles file transfers so frequently. (Some BBS's it works okay on, some it utterly fails, etc.)

When my new NIC shows up, I plan on investigating using mTCP to connect to systems instead. That would theoretically allow me to instead use it's http downloader to receive transfers from those sites that support it - which would be quite nice.

Would it be worthwhile in the community to investigate an escape sequence similar to zmodem's to signal to, and initiate those types of transfers for people like me (aka, me and only me) using such tools to handle file transfers? I assume the current expectation is to to just copy and paste the link to another window because your computer has more than 16MB of RAM and can multitask but if somebody's already written a tiny tcp/ip stack for x86 DOS I figured, why not take it all the way?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)

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