What a brilliant idea.

Thanks.

Nice !

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Implements HTTP redirects (301,302) as soft-links - even works with redirects that point to local files.

Is this really safe?

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It doesn't let you access local files that you don't already have access to, if that's what you mean.

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Thanks. I'm still working on making it asynchronous, currently you get slow responses when trying to access more than one resource at a time, but I thought it was worth uploading in its present state.

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This should come in handy. With this you could easily write scripts (DOS or Arexx) that download files from websites.

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Very nice. The simplest ideas are the best, as are the ones implemented as AmigaOS expects.

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Nice one Chris

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Great idea. Nice one.

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That's really cool Chris! Thank you!

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This is so simple, yet so unbelievably cool! I love it!

The best part is, it could only work so transparently and in such a system friendly way on Amiga OS. Brilliant.

Wow, nice surprise, thanks.

Have you thought about adding WebDAV support at some point in time? That would be a killer feature (well, to me at least )

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The best part is, it could only work so transparently and in such a system friendly way on Amiga OS. Brilliant.

First of all, it's not a new idea, MountFTP was the first to do that on AmigaOS, iirc. It rules, nevertheless. But no, there are other systems on which this is possible transparently. There are ways to mount ftps in various Unices, iirc.

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Not quite as transparently I'd imagine.

It's the fact that due to a coincidental similarity in the way URLs are constructed and the way Amiga paths are constructed you can literally enter :

type http://www.google.co.uk/

And get the HTML for Google's homepage back. Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm no *nix expert) but if there was an equivalent device driver in Unix/Linux it'd end up looking like:

cat /http/www.google.co.uk/

Or something very similar. Now there might be ways around that, but my point was that Amiga OS doesn't need to cheat. Thanks to this wonderful tool, you can just put URLs onto the commandline and they just work automagically!

Oh, and Re: MountFTP, I did know about that, but since it comes with a Workbench icon, it'd never actually occurred to me that you could use it from the commandline the same way you can with http-handler, but you're right it is very cool too.

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You've been busy again, haven't you !

Carry on...

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There are ways to mount ftps in various Unices, iirc.

Yeah. It's quite easy if you use GNOME desktop. Just open Nautilus filemanager and select connect to server from the menu. If you mount ftp-server then every GNOME application supporting GNOME-VFS can access that ftp. It's great feature but it's not as transparent as this http-handler for the OS4.
Console-applications can't access that mounted ftp nor can those GNOME-applications which do not support GNOME-VFS.. There are also some lower level systems which I have not used.

This could be wery useful. Simple but great idea !!

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Have you thought about adding WebDAV support at some point in time?

I'd never even heard of it.

After a quick breeze through the (oldest) specs, it certainly looks doable. LOCK is most likely impossible - AmigaOS commands tend to do a Lock() followed by an Examine() on every component of the path. As every component can be treated as a file, I have no way of knowing whether the Examine() is expecting a file or a directory, so this doesn't work. Also Lock() tends to not be used to stop files being modified while they are open, so it is likely to not help anyway.

As far as I can tell, LOCK is optional so this shouldn't be a problem. I need to look at the specs in more detail, though.

Is there a public WebDAV resource where I could test this should I decide to implement it?

Chris

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Very simpel,Very good, Very system friendly = Very good work

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The best part is, it could only work so transparently and in such a system friendly way on Amiga OS. Brilliant.

My point exactly!
It allows any program to access the HTTP as a device... fantastic!

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