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Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Wed, 17 May 2006 18:51:50 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Steve Bliss wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > That starts getting more difficult for a few reasons. First of all, the tracker
> > would have to return all the dependent files on the tracker in addition to the
> > requested files. Many of these files could well be already present on the
> > end-user's machine.
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> I'd say it wouldn't *have* to return the dependent files. LDView can turn
> around, and make an additional request.
Right - it could only do so when asked by the client, and the client is always
free to ignore data it doesn't need.
> > We'd also have to agree on a format for the response containing the multiple
> > files.
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> Use MPD (within a text response). Sending a stream of multiple files was the
> original purpose of the MPD format.
Could do that, or tar (which would work for non-DAT files, if needed). I'd be
tempted to add a zip compression (as an option) on the stream, since it should
compress so nicely... :)
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