Re: [9fans] The Web9 Project

[Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>]

nice!

for an eyecandy application, you might want to consider integrating
with something like eyeos (eyeos.org) or similar php based systems.

have you compared its performance to webdav?

> Hi,
>
> Following a request for more information on the project, here are a
> few details:
>
> a) PHP bindings to libixp (client-only; server portion currently
> being worked on). I will probably try to get this included as a
> standard module in the PHP distribution.
>
> b) JS9P - Implementation of the 9P protocol in Javascript. You can
> create and parse auth messages, but authentication is not supported
> at a higher level. The library provides methods to only create and
> parse binary 9P messages, since JS doesn't have native networking
> functionality. The actual transport can be done by either using the
> Mozilla JS-XPCOM extensions (see below) - or using XMLHttpRequests -
> (a sample has implemented - visit the Web9 site for more info).
>
> c) "Angled", a firefox extension to read files of a 9P serve right in
> the browser (uses JS9P). For example, typing in ninep://tcp!
> sources.cs.bell-labs.com!564/plan9/LICENSE into the address bar will
> return that file. Text and Images are shown in the browser itself,
> while other binary files trigger a download request. I'm still trying
> to figure out what is the best kind of interface to offer write/
> modify capabilities for the extension is.
>
> The work is a result of the Summer of Code 2007. You can clone the hg
> repository: http://code.kix.in/hg/web9 or view the code at http://
> code.kix.in/projects/web9/browser (there is also a mirror of the code
> at gsoc.cat-v.org)
> I'm also currently working on a pure PHP implementation of 9P,
> scheduled for inclusion at PEAR (pear.php.net) as the Net_9P package.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Anant