Re: [Plastic-devs] file-scheme URLs again

[John T. <jon...@gm...>]

Mark Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2006, Thomas Boch wrote:
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>> Mark,
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>> That's very annoying indeed.
>> I think that PLASTIC-aware Java applications should still be able to
>> deal with file URLs of the form "file://localhost/path" as those URLs
>> are perfectly valid. Thus, the workaround #1 seems indispensable IMHO.
>>     
>
> Yes, that's true.  I suppose that we stick with our decision that 
> PLASTIC messages ought always to contain legal URLs, and all 
> applications must be able to deal with them; however we might
> informally advise authors of non-java PLASTIC applications that they
> may have more luck communicating with (poorly-written) java ones 
> if they are a bit flexible about the URLs they can accept.
>
>   
I think that was the advice I gave to Marco a while back!

This discussion does make me think that we need some kind of 
Plastic-tester application.  It's already very easy for a Java 
programmer to send a plastic message with arguments that aren't valid 
xml-rpc.  This sort of error wouldn't show up when sent between two java 
apps (at least in the AR implementation of the hub).  I'm sure there are 
plenty of other gotchas that we could try to trap.

John



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