Re: Plans for gnome-vfs replacement

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 23:52 +0200, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> I was just wondering if it would still be possible to refer to a file
> through chained URIs (or IRIs, or whatever new alternative system you're
> proposing)
> 
> so would something like the following still be possible (in theory, I
> know there's no imap: or mime: vfs modules):
> 
> imap://user mail domain org:143/fetch%3EUID%3E.INBOX%3E666#mime:///attached_file.zip#zip:///directory/file.txt
> 
> in that case, how do you pass parameters to the chained parts, like for
> instance a zip password for the last part of the chain? Serializing it
> in the URI/IRI itself (...tory/file.txt?password=12345) might be a bit
> ugly...?

I dunno. This never quite worked in gnome-vfs, and the KIO guys said it
was nothing but problems for them. I'm not sure its really all that
important.

Of course, the above example URI is a prime example of all that is wrong
with using general URIs for a vfs. Any well-defined filesystem semantics
that will also support an imap backend is gonna suck raw eggs for actual
users of normal files.

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