[Sugar-devel] A small request.

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:20 AM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
> I don't understand your problem.

How does the XS know what URLs to mask?

For example, say the current version of Foo.xo (which the XS has) has
a url of http://sugarlabs.org/activities/ in its metadata but _old_
versions of the same activity are set to
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/ .

 - Should Foo.xo metadata contain a growing history of all urls for
the XS to intercept?
 - Should the XS contain a growing cheatsheet of urls to intercept?
 - For laptop.org -> SL is easy, how about all the other activity
authors using random personal servers?

All this specialcasing and cheat-sheet exceptions on the XS is just
plain horrible. And only ever works with HTTP. Se do need a service
discovery means for anything that is not as amenable to abuse as HTTP.


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