Re: Cong VFS

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:06 +0100, Jeff Martin wrote:
> I've been fiddling again trying to get conglomerate to work with webdav.

Excellent - that would be very cool.

> In theory this should just work but, it don't.
> 
> In cong-vfs.c there's a couple of lines which convert relative uri to to
> absolute by adding file:// to the front. This however knackers things
> starting http://. So I took these lines out. Relative uri still work
> fine so I'm not quite sure why these lines where there (may be an old
> bug work around?) 

I think it was a bugfix for running Conglomerate from the command line,
specifying a file to open.  So perhaps this code is in the wrong place,
and should be in the command-line arg parsing routine?

> 
> The problem I have now is gnome_vfs_read  returning zero bytes read in
> cong_vfs_read_bytes. I've run a packet sniff and the document is begin
> returned fine from the web server, but never makes it out of
> gnome_vfs_read.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on things?

Not sure on this one.  gnome_vfs_read is allowed to return less than the
number of bytes requested, in which case we're meant to loop (similar to
fread IIRC) - assuming there's no error.

It might be worth ensuring you have debug info for your gnome-vfs and
stepping inside the call.

IIRC there are some known issues with Conglomerate/gnome vfs
interaction; can't rememeber the bugzilla IDs offhand.

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