#6 Support for the file:// scheme

[andrew morton]

It would be great if Snoopy supported the file://
method for getting. Doesn't seem like too much work
either...

[andrew morton]

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at it's barest something like...

case "file":
$fp=fopen($URI_PARTS["path"], 'r');
$this->results = fread($fp, $this->maxlength);
fclose($fp);
$this->status = 200;
return true;
break;

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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this does seem like it could open up some security issues...
perhaps using a ALLOW_FILE_SCHEME constant so that that the
programmer has to enable this functionality...

[Jason Pell]

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Hi,

The 'file://' protocol is generally used for accessing
resources available from the local drives available to the
browser.

Since Snoopy runs on the server would not be available...

Are you wanting to use the file:// scheme to access files on
the server itself?

Thanks
Jason

[andrew morton]

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Exactly, it would provide a uniform way to access local and
remote files from PHP. I'm interested because MagpieRSS uses
your script to retrieve and then parse RSS files. In my case
all the files are located locally on the server so I hacked
in support for opening the files so I didn't have to put the
load on the webserver.

I'm not sure what direction your project is heading but it
seemed to that adding file support would be a simple but
very functional feature to add.

[Jason Pell]

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Hi,

Just to make it clear, I have no relationship to this
project, except as a user of snoopy.

I was just interested in what you wanted to use this feature
for.

I myself think that it is probably a bit out of the area for
which snoopy was designed, but thats up to the developers.

Cheers
Jason