Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Extensions


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2007-10-14T05:37:37Z (16 years ago)
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nejucomo
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    2 ``FIXME:'' Put stuff here.
     2= Extension Development =
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     4Tahoe has a programmatic API which enables building custom applications on top of the storage infrastructure.  This ``RESTful'' interface uses HTTP, so extensions can be implemented as separate processes across a network.
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     6 * The [/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/webapi.txt webapi.txt] document shows how to control a Tahoe node programmatically.
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     8== Known Extensions ==
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     10None known yet...
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     12== Extension Implementation Issues ==
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     14=== HTTP methods ===
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     16The api relies on four HTTP methods defined as per the standard {{{GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE}}}, which map intuitively to storage operations.
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     18Although these are standard HTTP methods, some clients do not offer good support for them.
     19 * The following clients are known to support all methods:
     20   * [http://curl.haxx.se/ curl] is an open source client which supports arbitrary methods with the '-X' option.
     21 * The following clients do not seem to support either {{{PUT}}} and {{{DELETE}}}:
     22   * Python 2.5's urllib module.  (Not verified.)
     23 * We have not yet determined if the following have support for arbitrary methods:
     24   * Common web browsers.
     25   * Python 2.5's httplib.
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