Re: [Tracker] [tracker-list] network support

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 22:26 +0400, Dmitry Bashkatov wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm going to try to add network support for tracker. Realization will
> not affect main code base. There will be daemon that sits on server
> and talks to tracker-store using dbus, opening network RPC interface.
> What do you think about this idea?

Why don't you just make an apache module that converts the results that
you get from DBus to RDFXML? http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/

You might have to do a bit of setuid()-ing to get the right session bus
from DBus. Maybe this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/suexec.html ?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/mod/mod_suexec.html#suexecusergroup

If you do it as an apache module then you'll get all the security
features of Apache for free. Like https, and authentication.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html

Surely you don't want your custom server to implement all that stuff if
Apache has done it all already?

Cheers

Philip


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