Re: Gnome VFS - plans for Gnome 2.8

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:16 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:02, Dan Winship wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 07:08, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > > On Enj , 2004-03-25 at 11:19 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > > finish and switch over to the neon-based HTTP/WebDav backend. 
> > > > Implement seek for http. There is a patch in bugzilla, but that is for
> > > > the current backend.
> > > 
> > > What about a libsoup-based backend instead?
> > 
> > I'll second that.
> > 
> > > Since libsoup
> > > is going to be used by so many things anyway, it only makes sense to use
> > > it also.
> > 
> > And also just because libsoup is a GNOME library, so it integrates more
> > nicely with other GNOME stuff than neon would. (It uses GObjects, it
> > uses the glib main loop when you're using async mode, etc.)
> 
> Does is support webdav?
>
yes

>  ssl?
>
yes

>  is it threadsafe? Is it well tested on all
> sorts of web/webdav servers?
> 
it's tested against exchange servers. I guess that's a weird enough
server to test against :-) Also, Groupwise, SunONE and the servers
listed in icalshare.com.

cheers