In article <36b3d4ab.15220878@news.povray.org> , 7no### [at] ezwvcom (Glen Berry)
wrote:

> It might come in handy for things such as IMP, where people will be
> rendering scene files that are stored on a machine accessible by the
> internet. It might also be nice to be able to output the images to a
> given URL instead of just to a local file.

However, for a platform independent project it is very hard (impossible?) to get
network access in any portable way.  If you support Sockets and Streams you will
most likely support most platforms, but not all, that is for sure.
And as Ron said, NFS (there is surely a client on every platform for it) or
other network file systems do a much better job than any proprietary interface,
even it is based on http, ftp or whatever else.


      Thorsten

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