Re: [dev] Re: Why HTTP is so bad?

From: Hadrian Węgrzynowski <hadrian_AT_hawski.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 12:34:58 +0200

Dnia , o godz.
Random832 <random832_AT_fastmail.us> napisał(a):

> On 05/25/2013 12:55 AM, Strake wrote:
> > Yes. Thus I can easily swap out any component, or insert mediators
> > between components. For example, I could write my own fetcher to
> > scrub the HTTP headers, or block ads; and I wouldn't need plug-ins
> > to view PDFs or watch movies.
> Why is the requirement that it conform to your IPC protocol* less
> onerous than requiring it to conform to a particular in-process API
> that would make it a "plug-in"?

It's as bad idea as implementation of shell commands as plug-ins
to shell.

> *which has to handle navigation on both ends, A] what happens when
> you click a link in your viewer and B] what happens to your viewer
> when the user navigates away from it. Also, is the browser required
> to download the whole file before opening the viewer, or can for
> example a PDF viewer display the first page before the last page is
> downloaded? Also for large files (highly relevant to a movie viewer)
> with a file format that allows it, you could take advantage of range
> fetching, but in both of these cases the viewer has to speak HTTP and
> just be told a URL by the navigation component.

Maybe we could make it work with something like httpfs [1]

[1] http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/
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