Re: [Qgis-developer] ziphttp?

2012-05-07 Thread Etienne Tourigny
Hi, my pleasure! I agree that http support would be very cool, and perhaps not that hard to implement (internally) since .zip support is there. However, where would this fit in the interface? .zip support is builtin the browser and file open dialogs, as the files reside on the filesystem. I

Re: [Qgis-developer] ziphttp?

2012-05-07 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com: Hi, my pleasure! I agree that http support would be very cool, and perhaps not that hard to implement (internally) since .zip support is there. However, where would this fit in the interface? .zip support is builtin the browser and file

Re: [Qgis-developer] ziphttp?

2012-05-07 Thread Etienne Tourigny
Hi Even, On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.org wrote: Selon Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com: Hi, my pleasure! I agree that http support would be very cool, and perhaps not that hard to implement (internally) since .zip support is  there.

Re: [Qgis-developer] ziphttp?

2012-05-07 Thread Even Rouault
I wasn't aware that the gdal api could be used to read zip (and other compressed files such as .gz .tar.gz .tar), I was under the impression that much functionality (such as getting a zipfile listing) was hidden under the hood , in files like cpl_vsil_gzip.cpp but not in the API. I may