On 3/22/07, Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 22 March 2007 16:00, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Several applications require BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer
> Service). Adding an implementation of BITS would be quite useful.
This intrigued me, so I poked at the information on BITS a little. MSDN
provides some fluff about using it, but doesn't give very much information
interesting for implementing the COM interface, what a surprise.
Anyway, I don't know what shape our iphlpapi is in, but I think it should be
possible to at least get the basic features working in the context of a SoC
project. Advanced features like authentication seem to rely on SPNEGO (MSDN
calls it Snego, which is interesting, as all other MS papers I know call it
Negotiate) to negotiate Kerberos or NTLM, and that's not there yet. Then
again, I wouldn't call this a necessary feature.
Go for it, people, only three days to do some more research on this. :)
Is three days enough? How much are we really supposed to know before
we apply for a project? If I take this idea for example, I don't know
anything at all about it. However, for another idea I have, I have
some basic idea on the concepts behind it, I just don't know really
know the API for it yet. (And the ironic thing, I have only learned
windows programming through wine). I think I'd prefer applying for
something I got knowledge in. There is probably no way to be totally
prepared or know everything about something, especially since if there
was someone that did, then it would have already been done by now ;)
Jesse
