On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/06/2010 04:36 AM, Nic Carter wrote: > >> I initially submitted a patch for HTTP parsing, but it only >> works for CrossWire and not for the Bible.org nor for the Xiphos >> repos, and I have no intention of modifying the parsing code even >> more in order to try to support more web servers! > > :) thanks for the patch! Yeah, surprisingly even FTP directory parsing > is painful. Even libCURL doesn't have an FTP directory listing parse > function. I couldn't believe that when I wrote the FTP code! We found > a portable library call ftpparse which parses directory listings for us. > When doing the HTTP transport, I was hopeful we might find an > httpdirparse or something :) But no such luck, as of yet. > > We were talking on #sword the other day about how odd it is that there > is no w3c standard for the obvious use case: > > Browse a hierarchy of folders+resources and retrieve some. > > I brought this up with a frequent member of w3c committees and he > suggested we develop a silly stupid minimal schema to represent a > resource tree and a) submit it for w3c approval, and b) submit updates > for Apache and IIS to update their Folder Index listings to comply to > the proposal. e.g., something like, > > <?stylesheet href="apache_look_and_feel.css"?> > <folder name="My Documents"> > <resource > type="file" mimetype="application/msword" name="War Of the Worlds.doc"/> > </folder>
Hm, don't understand, why you want to reinvent the wheel, when WebDAV exists. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
