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Re: Tenor KIO-slave?
by blacksheep on Thursday 14/Apr/2005, @02:51

My only grip about KIO is that tar, rar, etc should be implemented as pipes or something like that. I mean, it should be possible to view a TAR file from a FTP. Dunno if this is being worked on. My suggestion for how the url would look like is something like this: scp://server.com/file.tar|tar .

Anyway, yes, KIO is one of the best piece of software that lives in KDE. Really useful.

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Re: Tenor KIO-slave?
by Illissius on Thursday 14/Apr/2005, @08:28

I've always thought something like ftp://ftp.server.com/file.tar#tar:/file/inside/it would make sense -- taking a cue from the webpage.html#anchor-to-jump-to syntax. Don't know whether it would conflict with anything else, though.

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Re: Tenor KIO-slave?
by Spy Hunter on Thursday 14/Apr/2005, @19:21

It would be great except that somebody might use anchors named tar: in their html file, and even possibly name their html file with a .tar extension. It would be hard to figure out what was meant in every situation.

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Re: Tenor KIO-slave?
by James L on Thursday 14/Apr/2005, @08:38

It is actually, and honestly a very annoying/good thing (depending on what I want to do, which I don't expect KDE to be able to telepathically figure out) with my config is that it does show up as the opened tar file over ftp or http. (It's something I forget which under file types, show in embedded viewer as default I believe.)

And tar, gzip, bzip all already are piped through eachother. The tar kio-slave only handles uncompressed tar files (As of at least KDE 2.x, as I last recall looking. I doubt it would have changed), and the appropriate gzip/bzip kio-slave is used automatically.

Ie, tar://home/user/example.tar.gz is really tar://gzip://home/user/example.tar.gz (or something like that)

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Re: Tenor KIO-slave?
by Spy Hunter on Thursday 14/Apr/2005, @12:23

Here's my proposal: stack the protocols at the beginning, using the username part of the standard URL format as the file path for the archive. I think this could be implemented with no changes to the KIO framework, all the work would be done in the new IOSlaves.

A simple one: open a zip file on an HTTP server.

zip:/@http://server/file

Open a bzip2 compressed tar file on an HTTP server

tar:/@bzip2:@http://server/file

A complex example: open a particular file in a passworded rar file through fish://.

rar:/rardir/rarfile:rarpass@fish://user:pass@server/file.

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