Hi all,
Just wanted to report here that I've discovered a flaw in the code I submitted
a while ago for having an HTTP repository. The problem is in the code to parse
a directory, and the issue is that different web servers dish up their ftp
folders in different ways. I coded that based on the CrossWire repos, so that
the code works great for both the CrossWire and the CrossWire Beta (and the
CrossWire experimental!) repos, but I have just started working on adding
custom repos to PocketSword and when you add the HTTP version of the Xiphos
repo, there is a crash.
I'm not sure if anyone else is actually using that code atm, but if you are,
please be aware of that! I'm hoping to patch it so that it fails nicely, and
then I may either try to fix it or change the code so it tries to download the
zip file instead (which is what Bible Desktop does, I believe?). :)
FYI, the issue is how the html is dished out. On the Xiphos server, it pushes
out the formatting in <pre> tags, whereas the CrossWire server does it using
proper html formatting. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, but I've now realised
that we can't really guarantee how the directory contents will be displayed by
the server, so perhaps it's not a battle we should be striving to win? In some
(brief) testing, I believe that accessing the CrossWire repos via HTTP is
quicker than via FTP, so I am going to prefer HTTP over FTP in cases where it
works. :)
Thanks, ybic
nic... :)
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Nic Carter
PocketSword Developer - an iPhone Bible Study app
www: http://crosswire.org/pocketsword
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/app/Pocketsword/id341046078
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