17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Alex Strasheim said:
(A useful feature for Netscape might be a facility that checks periodically to see if a security patch is in order, and displays a warning if it is.)
The Simple Internet Version Control (SIVC, pronounced "civic") protocol does just this. See http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/sivc/spec.html for details. SIVC is popular on the Mac, but I don't know if it's been put up as an RFC. -Paul