From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Cc: "Åke Rehnman" <ake.rehnman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 11/11] Use wininet for fetching URLs in direct (non-proxy) case (DO NOT APPLY)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 10:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae6b0471-1aaf-36bc-1c72-bb63c449d50a@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60ed2d4e-7c89-a9b8-e3ab-e3d0819b7e56@gmail.com>
On 03/05/2017 18:08, Ã
ke Rehnman wrote:
> On 2017-05-03 18:37, Jon Turney wrote:
>> Thanks for the patch. So there are a few separate things here:
>>
>> * Pass unknown protocols to wininet
>>
>> This seems a fine idea, but isn't what this patch does.
> Yea, I know, I tested a few different solutions but it was difficult to
> make something clean and proper.
Ok.
>>
>> * Allow wininet to handle file:// URLs
>>
>> I'm a little bit concerned that there may be current uses which rely
>> on the incorrect parsing we do of file:// URLs to work.
>>
>> Otoh, this should fix the file:// URL format we currently mishandle,
>> so is probably worth doing.
> I don't know how that could have ever worked... (or does it?)
Not really, see the other branch of this thread.
>>
>> * What to do with non-URL (i.e. pathname) addresses?
>>
>> Perhaps WinInet can handle these, but assuming it does, is there a
>> good reason to change from using NetIO_File()?
> No. WinInet need proper file://host/path syntax. But the patch I made
> send those unknown protocols to NetIO_File(), right?
Yes.
I'll add a comment that "URLs we can't parse are assumed to be paths"
and apply this, after I've released 2.878.
Thanks for working on this.
>> There are also some associated UI issues, in that we give no clue that
>> a pathname is acceptable as a download site, and pathnames and file://
>> URLs are presented terribly in the download site list.
>>
> I saw that. Perhaps fixing that is another patch?
Sure. I just mention that for completeness, not out of any expectation
it's going to get fixed :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-04 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-28 12:12 [PATCH setup 00/11] Various setup patches Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:12 ` [PATCH setup 02/11] Remove unused package_status_t stored in packageversion class Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:12 ` [PATCH setup 01/11] Remove pointless abstract base class IniDBBuilder Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:13 ` [PATCH setup 05/11] Use const version of packageversion::depends() in PrereqChecker Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:13 ` [PATCH setup 04/11] Make packageversion::source(|s) const Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:13 ` [PATCH setup 08/11] Don't do unneeded work when changing stability level Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:13 ` [PATCH setup 09/11] Make building with DEBUG less useless Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:13 ` [PATCH setup 07/11] Don't handle missing 'version:' Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:13 ` [PATCH setup 03/11] Remove cygpackage::destroy() because it does nothing Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:13 ` [PATCH setup 10/11] Don't show source-only packages in package list Jon Turney
2017-05-01 14:45 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-05-01 19:35 ` Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:13 ` [PATCH setup 11/11] Use wininet for fetching URLs in direct (non-proxy) case (DO NOT APPLY) Jon Turney
2017-04-28 15:33 ` Åke Rehnman
2017-04-29 10:53 ` Jon Turney
2017-05-01 12:58 ` Jon Turney
2017-05-01 15:31 ` Åke Rehnman
2017-05-01 20:45 ` Jon Turney
2017-05-02 7:28 ` Åke Rehnman
2017-05-02 11:05 ` Jon Turney
2017-05-02 19:29 ` Åke Rehnman
2017-05-03 16:37 ` Jon Turney
[not found] ` <60ed2d4e-7c89-a9b8-e3ab-e3d0819b7e56@gmail.com>
2017-05-04 10:11 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2017-05-16 14:00 ` Jon Turney
[not found] ` <e402101c-8e7d-98ed-b39a-c82100d6d59f@gmail.com>
2017-05-17 10:55 ` Jon Turney
2017-05-03 7:22 ` Brian Inglis
2017-05-03 16:37 ` Jon Turney
2017-04-28 12:13 ` [PATCH setup 06/11] packageversion::sourcePackageSpecification() is const Jon Turney
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