Am Sonntag, den 26.12.2010, 09:55 +0200 schrieb Alon Levy: > 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. Length is probably not a problem unless you try to pass complete certificate chains in the uri (which is probably not what you ever want).
Charset actually may be a problem as soon as we pass passwords along. Following RFC3986 we should expect certain chars to be Percent-Encoded. > 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. You would add another connect method then? > > 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. That's my first goal, yes. Cheers, 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
