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> What about allowing name "" to support multiple links, so that the browser
> could be told name "file:///localfile.doc http://www.remote.com/foo.html".
> The browser could then be configured to look first at a local CD for
> content, resort to the http if *file not found* error
> 
I think that's not a good idea. Who should develop documents with such
mulitiple links. Should all documents have multiple (dummy) links 
- even if they do not exist ?
Instead this functionality should be realized externaly. 
For example as a special (proxy) cache server which has a rule list
for local replacements of URL's. This server could also be usefull
for WWW-Clients.
Oliver
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