Re: [Gnash-dev] Curl adapter status

[strk]

Just committed autotool magics.
Attached is a patch to make backend/gnash
use curl adapter for http:// requests
(just so you can test it, it's not that I like it)

--strk;

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:59:47PM +0200, strk wrote:
> I've have a libcurl adapter for tu_file working.
> It uses a temporary file as a buffer, so it will
> be easy to add persistent caching later.
> 
> Currently the adapter expects a *real* url, not
> a local filename, so the check to decide wheter
> the requested url belongs to a local filename
> or to a network resource must be implemented
> in the caller. I think this makes sense as
> a caller should now about it anyway, to decide
> caching strategies.
> We'd probably need a generic class for grabbing
> data, maintainin a map of <url> to <stream>.
> The default instance should take care of using
> what's available for different kind of access
> methods.
> 
> So, for now I just committed the curl_adapter.{cpp,h}
> files.  No changed to Makefiles yet. Will next work
> on the macro for libcurl detection.
> 
> After that, we should decide how to proceed.
> I conducted my tests by setting the file_opener
> callback in backend/gnash.cpp (basically
> hooking on the backend/gnash.cpp file_opener
> static function), but I'm not sure this is
> the way to go, as we'd be using #ifdef blocks
> all over the place to decide wheter or not
> to use the curl adapter, plus we should still
> verify that the requested <url> is not local.
> 
> Suggestions welcome.

gnash-curl.patch
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