Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 03:15:15 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: httpfs Message-ID: <20010310031515.A8998@mollari.cthul.hu>
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--IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs works by handing off everything to a userland daemon which handles the actual transaction request, so you could easily imagine extending it to provide an http method similar to the tcp method it currently has for initiating tcp connections. One could probably make this more generic and finish implementing the undocumented 'exec' method (which currently exists as a stub): this would run an administrator-specified command (i.e. fixed in /etc/portal.conf) and pipe the output back to the user. A fully navigable httpfs (e.g. one you can ls and cd around in) is more work and probably requires a full stacking layer, but this would still be pretty cool. Is anyone feeling inspired to implement this? :-) Kris --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6qgzDWry0BWjoQKURAk8QAKDG8KRZDePyH1IVlS2e1U4B3B63fQCgyTc9 7sLZBMrBbsH/NG4YeHbpApk= =G5nl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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