Re: WebDAV browser integration

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

Hi Jerry

Read http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/29196

Specifically the bit on the "web page viewer".

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:38 -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> So, another long time complaint has come to my mind, which I wanted to
> let you all know about. Just in case you find yourself in teh position
> to design a system to handle it.
> 
> While browsing from a web browser, many times, I want to click on a link
> and have that link open in an external application. I don't usually want
> to know that this is happening, I want it to happen automatically.
> WebDAV is the perfect example. When opening a link from a browser, I'd
> like the browser to open the link in the associated application, like,
> oh, Abiword. Abiword would be passed a url, open the file using web dav,
> and then when I save, attempt to save to the same url using web dav.
> 
> Right now this doesn't work right on our platform in most circumstances,
> but does work right in some cases on Windows. First off, the browser
> needs to have the ability to open the application with a Url. We can do
> that now. Second, the application needs to be able to download the file
> using the same set of cookies the browser was using. We can't do that
> now.
> 
> So, as you design a new VFS, please keep this in mind. It would be nice
> to have a way to solve the technical problem of the browser passing the
> cookies to the application. Or as another possibility, having the
> browser and the application share the same connection using GVFS, and
> thereby, the same cookies.
> 
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