[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Patches-2014632 ] urlloader: loader to download abstractions from the web.

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Patches item #2014632, was opened at 2008-07-09 20:40
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Category: externals
Group: feature
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Stephen Sinclair (radarsat1)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: urlloader: loader to download abstractions from the web.

Initial Comment:
urlloader: Implement a Pd loader to download missing abstractions from a given URL.

Uses libcurl for downloading, supporting HTTP and FTP transports.
Requires GPG to verify downloaded patches before loading them.
Also verifies the files MD5 sums stored in an index file, code taken from binutils.
Cached files time out after 100 seconds, currently hard coded in a #define.

TODO:
- Port to non-Linux operating systems.
- MD5 checking is probably redundant to GPG signature verification.
- Handle missing signatures better.
- Determine proper caching rules.
- Aliases for URLs which could be prepended to object names.
  (e.g., urlA:myobject)
- Determine whether this is even a good idea.
- Deal sanely with versioning.  (support svn URLs?)


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