The Finger-Protocol As A Mirror And CDN Protocol

⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux

⸺ published 2022-11-28T19:52:17-08:00

You could use finger as a mirror & a CDN —

The type of request many are used to —

finger joeblow@example.com

I.e., ask "example.com" for joeblow's content.

But you could request someone else's from a different server with:

finger joeblow@example.com@reiver.link

I.e., ask "reiver.link" for the content for "joeblow" from "example.com".