Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus now officially dependent on Ammonite when compiled with --enable-eazel-services

[Mike Fleming <mfleming eazel com>]

Hey Greg--

Thanks for the info.  Ammonite really does something a little different
than what you've inferred.  It's sort of a purpose-built component for
Eazel services, consolidating Eazel Service User login session
information across applications.  It serves two main functions:

1. Mantains a Eazel Service User session state across applications that
use this.  (Nautilus and its components)
2. Tunnel Eazel Service HTTP requests through SSL.  This is mostly
important for Mozilla embedded in Nautilus, since as of yet we don't
have a free software solution to SSL inside Mozilla.

Ammonite is *sort of* a client-side HTTP proxy that has some special
behaviour for Eazel services.  I should update the README to explain
better what it does.

As far as WebDAV goes, Nautilus's WebDAV implementation is based on the
gnome-vfs HTTP module, which currently uses its own HTTP library.

Neon sounds really interesting, though, and likely something we'll want
to look at using for some end or another.  I'll take your pointer and
check it out.  I'm glad that someone's working on a decent free HTTP
client library.  This has been a huge missing piece.

Mike

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> I just went and looked at Ammonite. Looks like SSL (plus anything else?),
> and the README states that you'd like to integrate it at some point with
> gnet and/or ghttp.
> 
> Easier answer? Just use Neon (http://www.webdav.org/neon/). It already has
> support for the following features:
> 
> *) HTTP/1.1 support (e.g chunked transfer codings, persistent connections)
> *) SSL support (using OpenSSL)
> *) high and low level interfaces to HTTP
> *) high-level WebDAV interfaces
> *) basic *and* digest authentication
> *) proxy support, including proxy-authentication
> *) ...
> 
> Neon is used by (at least) sitecopy, cadaver, and the Subversion client. It
> is quite a robust library. I was able to use it to connect to a DAV server
> and do a traversal -- from scratch (knowing nothing about Neon), it took
> just a few hours.
> 
> Neon is available under the LGPL, so it is quite compatible with the GNOME
> project.
> 
> Cheers,
> -g
> 
> 
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