On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 01:22:38PM +0100, Tiziano Müller wrote: > Hi everyone > > What do you think about having a spice URL (scheme)? > The idea behind this is that we would like to register a protocol > handler in the browser (or in the OS) to automatically start the spice > client based on a certain URL. > > examples: > spice://somehost:port/?password=sekrit&fullscreen=true > spices://somehost:sport/?password=sekrit&fullscreen=true > > Unfortunately I did not find a way to have the browser or the OS parse > the arguments before calling the registered protocol handler. Thus I > either have to code a wrapper around the spice client to do that job or > extend the spice client argument parser to accept an url as a parameter. > Since I prefer latter, I started by extending the Application class by a > url parser method and added a new command line flag '--url''. > > examples: > spicec --url "spice://somehost:port/" > > Opinions? Would this be useful for others as well or should I rather > write a wrapper?
I like the --url parameter. Just another command line argument, I don't know if the length restrictions (i.e. argument list length maximum - I think 64k on linux, not sure on windows, but I think less) will be a problem. Or charset. Our current solution is based on around a separate protocol over a pipe between a plugin to the browser and the spicec executable. Since there is some duplication here I would suggest you try to reuse the code from the controller class. Also, the controller protocol solves the problem of continued interaction between the spice client and the browser. But I think it's usable to also have a url scheme where you just launch and forget. > > Best regards, > Tiziano > > -- > stepping stone GmbH > Neufeldstrasse 9 > CH-3012 Bern > > Telefon: +41 31 332 53 63 > www.stepping-stone.ch > tiziano.muel...@stepping-stone.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
