[Cosmo-dev] Magic URL's

[Mikeal Rogers]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 9/12/06, Ted Leung <twl at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Given that Cosmo and Scooby are now merged, what are people's
>> thoughts about the kind of solution we ought to pursue?
>
> my proposal is a sort of hybrid of earlier ones.
>
> let there be a canonical "web url" for a collection shared to the
> server that chandler understands how to construct. when somebody
> visits that web url in their browser, the resulting page contains
> links to subscribe to the collection via atom and dav.

I believe one of the requirements is that the url pulls up the web  
calendar client when put in the browser, and when chandler gets it it  
knows to subscribe to the calendar via caldav.

This puts an extra step in the workflow and I think one of the  
requirements was that it "just work" in this work flow without the  
extra step of deciding which one to subscribe to.

I think that regardless of how we solve this problem we should still  
add all the relevant subscribe links (atom, rss, dav, webcal, gdata,  
etc) to the cosmo web UI.

>
> example: i share the "mystuff" collction. chandler tells me that the
> web url for this calendar is <http://osaf.us/home/bcm/mystuff/>. when
> i point my browser at that url, i get a web page that (among other
> things) tells me that i can use atom to access the collection at
> <http://osaf.us/atom/1.0/bcm/mystuff/> and dav at
> <http://osaf.us/atom/1.0/dav/bcm/mystuff/>.
>
> note that i am consciously avoiding using existing url spaces like
> "/pim" and "/console" to avoid tying people's understanding to the
> current web ui.
>
> looking ahead to the new sharing format and protocol (which i call
> "morse code", chandler would also know that to share the collection it
> uses the morse code url <http://osaf.us/morsecode/bcm/mystuff/>.
>
> we could even incorporate the autodiscovery idea by providing an
> introspection document at a url like
> <http://osaf.us/atom/bcm/mystuff/autodiscovery>.
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