Re: apt protocol handler
Kevin Krammer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.debian |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 08:51, Simon Edwards wrote: > A small technical point. You don't need a new URL protocol per se. > Consider: > > * The user clicks on the install now link. > * The link is to a small text file containing info about the new apt > source. * The server sends the file with the mimetype > application/x-aptsource for example. > > * Client side application/x-aptsource is associated with your small handler > program. > * Konq downloads the file and starts your handler. > * The handler does its thing. > > This is the same way that realaudio streams are started. No special > foobar:// protocols. Good point! Is this something a website author can easily set? Does he/she have to change httpd settings? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User www.mrunix.de - Unix/Linux programming forum www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum _______________________________________________ kde-debian mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-debian
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