On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:41:01AM +0000, hiro wrote:
did you consider using webfs?
No, and I'll give you my reasons,
1) It's been several years since I last ported webfs to
plan9port, and I wasn't in the mood to do it again.
2) webfs needs a client, and I'd have had to write one. I'd
rather have used hget, but webcookies isn't ported, and even
if it were, plan9port's hget isn't modified to access it the
p9p way.
3) Even if webcookies were ported, YouTube requires a player
that can read the cookies from a previous web access, and
none of them support mplayer. It would require an external
process to prefetch for every play (or a real OS mount of the
filesystem, and opening the data stream file with the
player), which means no live seeking.
--
Kris Maglione
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the
complexities of his own making.
--Edsger W. Dijkstra
