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- To Do List for neon -*- text -*-
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- Please submit feature requests to <mailto:neon@webdav.org>
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- For one-point-oh
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- 40. XML body acceptance callback should check Content-Type. Should
- also pass encoding to expat if one is given (how about libxml?).
- Recent mod_dav's return XML bodies in 424 responses which need
- parsing properly.
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- 44. Finer-grained connection status feedback, i.e., "Sent Request",
- "Got response status-line"... "Reading response body"
-
- 58. 2616 is quite strict about when to retry non-idempotent requests
- and when not to. neon may not be compliant here.
-
- 62. Select which auth mechanisms are allowed, e.g. JUST SAY NO to
- basic might very well be useful to some apps.
-
- 64. Add options to only enable SSLv2 support, etc.
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- Longer term
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- 2. Add proper domain support to authentication code. (requires full
- URI parsing support). Need to tell the auth layer the server
- details.
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- 6. PUT with ranges... ne_put_range
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- 9. DeltaV support (http://www.webdav.org/deltav/). See also the
- subversion project (http://subversion.tigris.org/) who might build
- a versioning system over DAV.
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- 10. ACL support (http://www.webdav.org/acl/)
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- 11. DASL support (http://www.webdav.org/dasl/). Xythos have server
- support for this (www.sharemation.com). The UI is probably the
- hardest problem here.
- => Jim Whitehead's UCI postgrad team is working on this and
- has written a DASL implementation.
-
- 14. Improved request-header manipulation... some kind of indexed table
- (a la Apache, libghttp, so we're sure we don't add the same header
- to the request twice. Better control over adding Cache-Control
- headers would be good too.
-
- 17. Should we really be i18n'izing the low-level error messages in
- ne_request.c, ne_207.c ? It seems nice and clever to, so the user
- REALLY know what is going wrong with the server (probably), but it
- is maybe a bit frightening.
-
- 21. Storing multiple authentication "sessions" within an actual
- auth_session, so I can log into e.g. /foo/ and /bar/ (which are
- not in the same authentication domain) and switch between them
- without having to re-enter passwords all the time.
-
- 35. Allow i18n'ization if building a shared library, iff gettext
- support is on the system (and hence add -lintl or whatever to
- NEON_LIBS). If system has no gettext support, then it's probably
- impossible to support i18n in the library (although *applications*
- can support it by bundling gettext themselves). Take a look at how
- other libraries handle this.
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- 46. Asynchronous request-dispatching? Makes integration into GUI loop
- easy... any other reasons? Must leave existing request_dispatch
- interface intact.
-
- 50. opendir/readdir/closedir-esque interface for PROPFIND depth 1,
- a la EZDAV. (cadaver has it already)
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- 53. "ne_session" concept is hazy. Abstract out a "connection" concept
- too, and allow >1 connection per-session in multi-threaded use,
- somehow.
-
- 57. Add function to map of status-code values to i18n-ized reason
- phrase.
-
- 65. Add ne_uri_copy function and use it in ne_lock_copy. (patch
- sent to neon@webdav.org)
-
- 66. Useful for subversion/ra_dav:
-
- - a hook which runs *after* the response headers are read,
- but *before* the response body is read
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