The only part of the path that the zip cares about is that which comes
after it.  Therefore you only need to be smart about the type of
accessor that gets created as you walk the path.  Once you hit the zip
file name, you would create some sort of zip accessor that would get
handed the remaining portion of the path.  The file: variant would work
just fine and be more consistent with normal file URIs.  Plus, it would
work for http URIs, ftp URIs, etc.  The protocol aspect of the URI
really needs to only be concerned with the communications protocol, not
with how a certain component of the path is interpreted.

So, in the same way that you would write:

file:///path/to/some.zip/memberName ; you could also write:
http://www.squeak.org/path/to/some.zip/memberName

And it would work (providing that the http server has a similar zip
accessor capability).

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Ned Konz
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:41 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Another SAR/DVS feature request
> 
> 
> On Thursday 05 December 2002 10:37 am, Stephen Pair wrote:
> > In the above, you'd need the URI
> > object to access the objects in the path sequentially.  For 
> example, 
> > it first asks "some" to get member "path"; then it asks 
> "path" to get 
> > member "to"; then it asks "to" to get member "some.zip"; 
> then it asks 
> > "some.zip" to get member "membername".  Actually, you'd 
> probably want 
> > to pass the entire remaining portion of the path at each 
> > step...details.
> 
> Which works fine if you have the thing actually in existence. 
> However, 
> you can't answer any questions about it or parse the path if you 
> don't have it available. We need to be able to ask the URI "what is 
> the name of the zip file" and "what is the member name" without the 
> thing necessarily existing.
> 
> So maybe it would be better to be explicit, like:
> 
> zip:///path/to/some.zip&member="memberName"
> 
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com
> GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE
> 
> 
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