Re: [GNUnet-developers] End-user wishlist

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:57 am, Igor Wronsky wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, N. Durner wrote:
> > > I
> > > don't know how/if new protocol like 'gnunet://' could be added to any
> > > arbitrary browser easily.
> >
> > There's no problem under Windows. MS IE and Netscape/Mozilla support it.
>
> And gnunet is sooo muuuch windows application at the moment.

Well, if you don't configure any transports and don't load any application 
modules but afs, gnunetd actually starts and lets you insert, search and 
download locally (and I have seen gnunet-gtk running, too). But it keeps 
crashing, of course. But maybe that's just windows :-). 

> What
> about Linux and the other unix style systems?

Yes, they are more important; but Konqueror can do "something:" as a URI, and 
if some browsers/applications are not compliant with the RFCs, that's there 
problem, not that much ours. I'm sure that as long as our approach is 
reasonably compatible with what is generally recommended, they'll get along 
eventually.

> I looked through my
> preferences in mozilla and I'm fairly certain there wasn't anything
> looking like that. If its not in the preferences its too complicated
> for average user to set for certain, and even more sure is that
> some install script can't set it automagically for arbitrary browser.
> On the other hand, almost any browser supports setting mime helper
> applications easily.

I don't know enough about any of the plugin APIs to answer that; nevertheless, 
(ab)using mime-types just feels like the wrong answer, especially since the 
content will have a mime-type in addition to the URI. The URI is in some 
sense just the transport - how to get it. The mime-type is for the contents, 
not the transport.

Christian
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