[Maf] Maf questions and comments

[Christopher Ottley]

E. Baud wrote:

>1- I can't make maf:// protocol working: I only get a blank page.
>maf://ebdjpg.free.fr/download/thaiviet_.maff is making a blank page.
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The maf:// protocol requires a sub protocol-ed URL in order to work. For 
example 
maf://file:///home/cottley/mafs/ANSI%20String%20Class.maff!1107696913195_925/index.htm 
will open the file 1107696913195_925/index.htm that's in the archive 
ANSI%20String%20Class.maff on the local file system. I designed the 
maf:// protocol with two things in mind, you could bookmark a page in an 
archive (you can't bookmark the page in the temp folder because that's 
cleared) and to allow easy access to archives indexed and searched using 
my Nariva desktop search engine (http://nariva.sf.net/). Unfortunately I 
haven't implemented support for any other protocol other than file:// so 
maf://http://ebdjpg.free.fr/download/thaiviet_.maff would have been the 
correct format, but it's not implemented.


>2- When browsing on a .maff file, I get a popup "opening file.maff", with
>"you have chosen to open file.maff, which is a Mozilla Archive Format, What
>should Firefox do with this file: Open with popup_browse/save_to_disk". The
>issue is that the "OK" button stay grey (not-clickable) whatever I select...
>(you can try on http://ebdjpg.free.fr/download/thaiviet_.maff )
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The handling of online .maff files hasn't been implemented.


>3- I tried to modify index.rdf, but it seems that archivetime is mandatory;
>isn't it? What if I doesn't want primary directory as 1108979599663_771-like,
>for the archive structure ? (for example, if I want a zip/MAF archive without
>any directory inside)
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You need a time. You don't need to name the folder in the MAF archive 
1108979599663_771-like as you put it, but it *must* have at least one 
sub folder. It makes catering for multiple pages in archives easier.

Regards,
Christopher.