[sword-devel] HTTP Transport support (was: Remote Module Repository Wiki)

[Butrus Damaskus]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> 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.