Re: [openobex-users] OBEX URIs

[Christian W. Z. <Christian@Zuckschwerdt.org>]

Hi,

Marcel Holtmann wrote:

>I tried to come up with some general Bluetooth URIs and failed so far,
>but you might wanna have a look at the JSR-82 specification:
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The protocol is fixed to "btspp". It's short and meaningful but very 
specific. I'm still not convinced that mixing the service and transport 
part is a good idea. Just think about tunnels or converters.

One interesting point in JSR-82 is the fact they use a UUID as pseudo 
port number. (e.g. btspp://localhost:F9EC7BC4953C11D2984E525400DC9E09/). 
Placing the service that way is a nice approach. On the other hand it 
would seriously cripple the possiblilities. There is no way to discover 
the port number when accessing an obex server over the net. And perhaps 
one would like to use a some service on a given bt channel.

>I personally like to see a more general approach instead of an OBEX only
>one. Application like Gnome-VFS etc. would also profit from a general
>scheme.
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I second that. If something like an URI scheme is going to appear in 
ObexFTP it should be as general as possible and agreed upon by all 
interested parties. Perhaps everyone interested could spell out their 
requirements.


cu,
Christian