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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: A new framework for embedding ... without CORBA
From:       Graham TerMarsch <gtermars () home ! com>
Date:       1999-10-02 0:11:37
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Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Graham TerMarsch wrote:
> > I'd looked at what'd really be involved in doing one, and didn't think that
> > it'd be too hard to do.
> 
> Nope!  The ioslave part is a piece o' cake as long as you know the
> protocol itself.

Oh, I've gotten pretty good at working with it (again) as at the moment I'm
doing all of the NNTP stuff manually as I've needed to do things slightly
differently than I'd seen in other NNTP modules we've got in CVS.  Would there
be any one in particular that you'd recommend looking at as a reference?

> > However, I did have question as to how NNTP URLs would be
> > represented, considering that NNTP itself has several other
> > extensions (e.g. 'xpat') that don't really map across into any sort
> > of URL.  Other things such as "how do I just pull down the _headers_
> > for a single msg, without the msg body" also left me as a bit
> > puzzled as to how they'd map properly.
> 
> You will need to use a kioslave specific URL in this case.  The
> problem (as you well know) is that all "official" NNTP URLs don't
> contain nearly enough information.

I know, that's why I was left puzzled with the "how the heck do I make it
do..." type stuff.

> You might want to try something like:
> 
> nntp://user:pass@host:port/news/path/msg?action=something&other=action
> 
> Some *possible* examples
[.....snip.....]
> 
> Formatting the URLs like this makes parsing quite easy and one can
> contain a LOT of information in the x=x pairs (all started with ? and
> seperated by &)

You rock.  I'd known that this sort of stuff was "possible", but wasn't sure
if it'd be acceptable to put any of it in there.  Perhaps I'll run along here
and build something up that I can let others have a gander at and we'll see
how it comes together from there.

-- 
Graham TerMarsch

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