On Dec 15, 2007, at 12:53 , Ivan Krstić wrote: > On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> Well, beginnings of "understandable" documentation are here: >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Tubes > > Hmm. Does that mean sending a file over a stream tube requires the > sender to bind a socket which, when connected to, starts spewing > back the file contents? That seems awfully awkward.
Stream tubes are nothing more than socket forwarding/tunneling a TCP connection, so yes, you're on your own. What the Read activity does is actually run a Web server, and making that available as a stream tube. At least this does not invent a new protocol ... - Bert - _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
