What about using WebDAV for HTTP? It supports directory listings (i.e. collections).
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <[email protected]>wrote: > > 3) The TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY used to enable this over the Internet. > > We chose FTP because it was more practical. It is very difficult to > implement the programmatic traversal of a directory and file hierarchy > over HTTP. Apache and IIS all spew out different html for directory > listings. > > Now having said this, Nic Carter submitted the first pass at this which > works for our apache server (and likely many apache servers which spew > out the vanilla html index page like here: > http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/ > > So, HTTP is currently possible in the engine and if we get push back > from publishers or find users not able to use FTP due to firewall > restrictions, we plan to fully support HTTP moving forward. We simply > need to break out our directory parsing code and make it work well with > a few of the more mainstream httpd services like Apache and IIS. -- Weston Ruter http://weston.ruter.net/ @westonruter <http://twitter.com/westonruter> - Google Profile<http://www.google.com/profiles/WestonRuter#about>
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