Hi Oliver, On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > I have continued the work started by Regina, Ariel and Kay regarding > the update service. > I have documented my findings at [1]. > > I think we have everything together to bring a corresponding web > service back to life. > > I think we have at least two options for such a web service. > > If we want to create a 'real' web service which on demand creates an > appropriate response the HTTP GET request contains all needed > information in its header fields "User-Agent" and "Accept-Language" > to implement such a web service. > The "User-Agent" field contains the operating system, the machine > architecture and the bundled languages of the installed office. If a > corresponding installation package of newer version is available a > corresponding response can be generated. > > Another solution could be to provide a static XML document, based on > an atom feed, which contains as much entries as installation > packages for the latest version are available. For each installation > package which defines itself by the operating system, the machine > architecture and the bundled languages an entry is needed. Such > entries need to be duplicated for every existing office installation > with different <UpdateID> in its version.ini. > > Any thoughts, comments, corrections, ...?
All seems right. One missing point is the query part of the URL, a non-WNT feature related to the package format, see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/scp2/source/ooo/common_brand.scp?revision=1296424&view=markup#l1031 ${UPDATEURL}?pkgfmt=<pkgformat> A web service should analyze the query string, pkgfmt can be rpm or deb (in a common Linux install set). > BTW, the update service of a certain installed office can be tested > locally. No HTTP GET request is involved in this case, but you can > test with certain XML documents provided as responses. You can > change the value of <UpdateURL> in file <version.ini> of your office > installation to a local file URL - e.g. under Windows to something > like file:///C:/check.update.xml > > [1] > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Update_Notification_Protocol#A_glance_on_the_code_for_the_Apache_OpenOffice_3.4_release Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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