Re: [gnome-network]Transfer Manager (again!)

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> No. Well, yes and no. It is detected and not handled could be said for
> all headers and HTTP status codes that there is not specific code in the
> module for already. However, that is not really the case. There are 3
> common ways to do redirection. Firstly there are the 30x status codes. I
> believe there are defines for these values, so that they have pretty
> macro names, but nothing is done with them. Then there is the Location:
> HTTP header. I tried to patch gnome-vfs to handle this method already,
> and ended up being stuck between a rock and a recursively hard place. It
> needs sufficient rewriting to be able to function correctly. There is
> not enough information internal to handle this. However, there is a
> callback that is passed all of the extra headers in a list, and support

Well you basically get 30x and Location: at the same time. Did you 
attached any patch comments to a bug at bugzilla? Where do you got stuck 
and what the problems were?

> for Location: can be added to specific clients. Then there is the HTML
> meta tag for doing a refresh, with a timeout. This requires parsing the
> <head/> tag of the HTML document, and doing the necessary timeout stuff,
> if one is set. So, this can be done in the client as well.

Well, I think we can go with the first case, then try to implement this 
one. But I'm not sure we should handle it. I will ask teuf about it.

> > Anyway teuf helps a lot. So it is doable.
> I didn't say it wasn't doable. I said it wasn't doable in the current
> code. It will require sufficient rewriting of the HTTP module.

Umh, I would like to see comments about this, where the problem is and 
what needs changed. If you really think the solution is going with 
libcurl, post a comment to the gnome-vfs list.

> > Have you proposed the switch to libcurl in the gnome-vfs list? this will 
> > be good since if the switch is going to happen, it makes no sense to fix 
> > current gnome-vfs code.
> I have not proposed this to the gnome-vfs list, no. But, I recall seeing
> someone else having proposed the same thing. I don't remember where
> though.

I talked with teuf. The good thing is that libcurl handles all the 
stuff, the problem is that there are thread issues.

I'll take a look at the code that teuf did to try to use libcurl.

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Manuel Clos
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