[x3d-public] [x3d] Agenda for X3D WG Meeting; .htaccess to view draft specification directories

[Don Brutzman]

(As requested during today' teleconference.)

Suggest adding .htaccess to draft specification subdirectory trees.

This can facilitate editorial review of the document, allowing:
- online inspection of subdirectory trees,
- detection of missing assets that are unlocatable due to broken links,
- simplify reporting of these kinds of issues so that other reviewers can look at them.

Guidance includes when (and when not) to use them is provided by Apache.
	https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/htaccess.html

Motivation: reviewing issues take time to discuss, and even more time and potential confusion with international participants.  Helping reviewers to a good job and not waste time helps everyone.

I think the benefits (to our review process) outweigh any risks (which are handled already, e.g. no spam or malware included).

Example .htaccess file follows:
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# ENABLE DIRECTORY VIEWS
Options +Indexes

# References
# https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/htaccess.html
# https://perishablepress.com/better-default-directory-views-with-htaccess
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Thanks for all consideration of this suggestion.

all the best, Don
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Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br       brutzman at nps.edu
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