66675 - implement pserver protocol handler (cvs)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Risto Kotalampi]

Subject says it all... this would be really useful for browsing cvs servers.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht]

Hi,
I've been able to checkout a file via a perl script, so basically I understood
the protocol.
The protocol is specified in docs/cvsclient.ps in the cvs source.
One important trouble maker is the fact, that I need the CVSROOT to
authenticate, so there are a few variables that I need set in the protocol.
If we do this halfway decent, this protocol could be extended to check out
specific versions or diffs, too.

I read ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt and 3.2.2 states that URLs look
like 
http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ "?" query ]]

So setting CVSROOT via ?CVSROOT=/cvsroot looks ok to me.

Username and password should go with pserver://user:[e-mail]/ and 
default to anonymous:anonymous.
CVSROOT defaults to /cvsroot?

oh, should we call it cvs: or pserver: ? It's pserver after all, so I vote for
that.

Axel

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht]

hey, forgot mime type.
text/plain for normal files, and application/octet-stream for -kb?

Axel

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

Take a look at what sourceforge.net does for cvsweb.cgi

Comment 4

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

You might consider using protozilla <http://protozilla.mozdev.org/> for this.

Comment 5

[benc]

mass move, v2.
qa to me.

Comment 6

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

*** Bug 135823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Why was this ever anything but WONTFIX? :) (an extension at best, I would think)