Hi Aleksander, I'll take a peek at your code sometime soon.
Many thanks. William On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Aleksander Morgado <aleksan...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi again William, > > I spent some time this week playing with the HTTP filesystem and ended > up with a quite simplified implementation: > > bzr branch lp:~aleksander-m/gnupdf/fsys-api > > Specifically here: > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~aleksander-m/gnupdf/fsys-api/view/head:/src/base/pdf-fsys-http.c > > It would be great if you could take a look at it and comment it. I > already tested the file_open() part, where the HTTP-HEAD is done to know > if "Accept-Ranges: bytes" is supported. Also implemented the file_read() > part with a range request via HTTP-GET, but didn't have time to test it > yet. Note that I modified the utils/pdf-filereader program a bit to > easier test all this. Again, not saying that this is the way we should > go forward with the HTTP filesystem, just suggesting an easy > implementation. > > Oh, and still, Disk filesystem should be our main priority right now, > not the HTTP one :-/. I plan to fully focus on it and merge to that > branch I'm working on some patches which didn't get merged yet [1]. > Also, I think Jose is preparing a patch for gnulib to include url > creation capabilities ported from wget, which we will also use in both > the Disk and HTTP filesystems. > > Cheers! > > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pdf-devel/2011-04/msg00010.html > > -- > Aleksander > -- Bravo Paulo! <http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2011/04/28/who-deleted-the-song-in-my-profile/>
