[Coco] DriveWire netdisk interface

[Aaron Wolfe]

Hi,

I wanted to use webdav, but as far as I could tell, webdav doesn't support reading or writing specific portions of a file.  If i'm wrong about that please let me know!

To implement a disk image that "just works" with DECB and OS-9, we have to be able to read and write abitrary 256 byte sections of the file.  I wrote my own simple protocol for this because i didnt see any way to do this with http.  

-Aaron


-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:43 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire netdisk interface

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:51:41PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> I've been thinking about how to enable writing to disks stored in an
> internet disk repository.
> I had an idea of how this could work, and wondered if you guys were
> interested in something like this.

Aaron,

I took a quick peak at your project and it seems you are using custom
server code in Perl.  That is certainly your perogative, but I was
wondering why you wouldn't just use a standard protocol like HTTP?
It would certainly ease disk image publishing.

For writing, WebDAV seems like a natural choice and using that
could/should save you from having to implement security code yourself.

Not sure about the client side implementation -- I'm sure C
libraries exist for such thing but I don't know anything about them.
Implementing the http/webdav client stuff in Perl or Python should
be simple enough as an alternative.

Well, just a thought... :-)

John
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