Re: [pdf-devel] Comments about the HTTP filesystem implementation

[William Demchick]

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 <address@hidden> 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
>



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