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Re: Marinetti 'casper' - How do I use it?
To: Steven Hirsch
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:08:38 -0400, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>> To: Steven Hirsch
>> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:24:40 -0400, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>>
>>>>> Does it support HTTP file transfer?
>>> Glen, what's the answer to the above? Does Casper support HTTP file transfer?
>>
>> Personally, I don't understand the why there is a question. Casper is
>> an HTTP server so all it does is transfer data via HTTP.
>>
>> Casper currently does not automatically create an HTML document of a
>> directory of files but you could always write a program that would
>> create that HTML document for you and run it before you want to do file
>> transfers using Casper.
>
> There's a difference between spitting back a static web page preceeded by HTTP
> headers and being able to transfer a binary file. The latter requires
> encoding and decoding the last I looked.
Anything sent via HTTP will have HTTP headers. That is part of the
HTTP. If you send data without those headers, you are no longer sending
via HTTP anymore. There is also no encoding done by an HTTP server.
Encoded data can be transfered but it is never encoded by the HTTP
server unless you are talking about an HTTPS server which does do some
encoding for security but that is a different transfer protocol.
You mentioned MIME in another post but that has absolutely nothing to do
with HTTP. MIME is an encoding method that can be transferred in many
ways but is most popular in e-mail.
Glenn mentioned that transferring binary data with Casper failed and I
would imagine that is a bug in the software as 8 bit binary transfers
are standard for HTTP so Casper must be having problems dealing with
files larger than a certain size.
As others have mentioned, Silver Platter would probably be the best way
to do this at present if you are set on doing HTTP transfers. Another
option would be to set up an FTP server on your modern machine and use
SAFE2 or gwftp to upload files from your Apple II.
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