Le vendredi 14 janvier 2011 à 21:03 +0000, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit : > On 14 Jan 2011, at 19:44, Philippe Roussel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to use NSURLConnection instead of NSURLHandle to access a > > WebDAV server (mainly because NSURLConnection seems to be the future). > > Well, it's the direction Apple has gone ... that doesn't mean it's better in > GNUstep.
True, I hadn't thought about that. This could also be seen as a way to test NSURLConnection and friends. It seems _NSFileURLProtocol isn't really full featured. > > WebDAV only adds new methods to http so implementing a WebDAVURLProtocol > > from scratch would mean a lot of code duplication. On the other hand, > > subclassing _NSHTTPURLProtocol seems to be difficult as it is mostly > > hidden. > > As the only thing that needs to be modified is the list of accepted > > methods, I propose the following patch to allow the use of WebDAV > > specific methods. > > > > Would that be acceptable ? > > > If you want to use NSURLConnection for Apple compatibility, then your > code needs to work with the Apple Foundation, so you can't change the > behavior of _NSHTTPURLProtocol (though of course if the GNUstep > implementation differs from the Apple one we can change it to match). > As a general rule we don't want to introduce incompatibilities between > Apple and GNUstep, so I think the answer is 'no', it's not acceptable > to add methods in _NSHTTPURLProtocol unless Apple's implementation > already supports them (you could write some testcases to find out). I have no idea how Apple implemented NSHTTPURLProtocol and no way to test it. The thing is, I'm not sure to understand why NSHTTPURLProtocol doesn't let me use the methods I want. What if I want to shoot myself in the the foot ? Maybe NSHTTPURLProtocol could be Apple compliant while providing a way to change the accepted methods, as a GNUstep addition or through a subclass ? Anyway, I can go back to NSURLHandle easily. Thanks, Philippe _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
