Comments on: New Roxen Application Launcher for Linux written in Vala http://www.poppa.se/blog/new-roxen-application-launcher-for-linux-written-in-vala/ My blog about web development and such Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:56:56 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Pontus http://www.poppa.se/blog/new-roxen-application-launcher-for-linux-written-in-vala/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Pontus Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:05:18 +0000 http://www.poppa.se/blog/?p=301#comment-162 I've fixed this bug in the last release: http://bit.ly/8vW9y5 I’ve fixed this bug in the last release: http://bit.ly/8vW9y5

]]> By: Pontus http://www.poppa.se/blog/new-roxen-application-launcher-for-linux-written-in-vala/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Pontus Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:17:52 +0000 http://www.poppa.se/blog/?p=301#comment-157 BTW: I filed a "libsoup" bug in Vala and got a confirmation that there is a binding bug. The data in Soup.Message should be a "uint8[]" (which I have in my sloppy HTTP client ;)) and not a "string" as it is now. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605862 As soon as this bug is fixed in Vala I will drop my HTTP client and implement a Soup client instead which then probably will resolv the issue with redirects and HTTPS. BTW: I filed a “libsoup” bug in Vala and got a confirmation that there is a binding bug. The data in Soup.Message should be a “uint8[]” (which I have in my sloppy HTTP client ;) ) and not a “string” as it is now.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605862

As soon as this bug is fixed in Vala I will drop my HTTP client and implement a Soup client instead which then probably will resolv the issue with redirects and HTTPS.

]]> By: Pontus http://www.poppa.se/blog/new-roxen-application-launcher-for-linux-written-in-vala/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Pontus Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:12:56 +0000 http://www.poppa.se/blog/?p=301#comment-156 Cool, nice to get some feedback :) I had problems with "libsoup" which totally scrambled binary data like images and such. Somewhere in GLib or libsoup some magic text encoding is happening. Thus I made my own HTTP client - a sloppy one that doesn't handle redirects and other events ;) - where the data always is a byte array. If I only can figure out how to make libsoup NOT encode/recode the data being transfered libsoup is definitely to prefer. Thanks for the feedback though. Now I have something to do on New Years Eve since I've got the flu ;) Cool, nice to get some feedback :)

I had problems with “libsoup” which totally scrambled binary data like images and such. Somewhere in GLib or libsoup some magic text encoding is happening. Thus I made my own HTTP client – a sloppy one that doesn’t handle redirects and other events ;) – where the data always is a byte array.

If I only can figure out how to make libsoup NOT encode/recode the data being transfered libsoup is definitely to prefer.

Thanks for the feedback though. Now I have something to do on New Years Eve since I’ve got the flu ;)

]]> By: tec http://www.poppa.se/blog/new-roxen-application-launcher-for-linux-written-in-vala/comment-page-1/#comment-155 tec Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:03:49 +0000 http://www.poppa.se/blog/?p=301#comment-155 now I see! https support is not yet implemented! gio's SocketClient() does not handle this, but I see libsoup has https support. now I see! https support is not yet implemented!

gio’s SocketClient() does not handle this, but I see libsoup has https support.

]]> By: tec http://www.poppa.se/blog/new-roxen-application-launcher-for-linux-written-in-vala/comment-page-1/#comment-154 tec Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:44:40 +0000 http://www.poppa.se/blog/?p=301#comment-154 I think I pinpointed the problem, your application does work when I use it in combination with a http:// server.. when the server is https:// it fails, returning the error described above. Hope this helps you a little, I did not manage to fix it myself (yet) ;) I think I pinpointed the problem,
your application does work when I use it in combination with a http:// server.. when the server is https:// it fails, returning the error described above.

Hope this helps you a little, I did not manage to fix it myself (yet) ;)

]]> By: tec http://www.poppa.se/blog/new-roxen-application-launcher-for-linux-written-in-vala/comment-page-1/#comment-153 tec Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:29:59 +0000 http://www.poppa.se/blog/?p=301#comment-153 Good work though! If I can get this app working it'll be really useful to me :) (there is no real alternative to the roxen launcher when using ubuntu 9.10, currently i'm using the old roxen launcher 2.2 with wine) Good work though! If I can get this app working it’ll be really useful to me :)
(there is no real alternative to the roxen launcher when using ubuntu 9.10, currently i’m using the old roxen launcher 2.2 with wine)

]]> By: tec http://www.poppa.se/blog/new-roxen-application-launcher-for-linux-written-in-vala/comment-page-1/#comment-152 tec Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:27:36 +0000 http://www.poppa.se/blog/?p=301#comment-152 Hi, while testing your new application launcher I ran into a bug. It seems that when the AL GET's an url which is moved (error 301) the software isn't working. (function returns if http response status !== 200) Error: ** (roxenlauncher:30068): WARNING **: launcherfile.vala:415: Bad status in download: 301 telnet tells me (when I GET the same url): GET /bla/bla/bla.xml HTTP/1.0 301 Redirect to secure server Location: https://bla:443/bla/bla/bla.xml Hi, while testing your new application launcher I ran into a bug.

It seems that when the AL GET’s an url which is moved (error 301) the software isn’t working. (function returns if http response status !== 200)

Error:
** (roxenlauncher:30068): WARNING **: launcherfile.vala:415: Bad status in download: 301

telnet tells me (when I GET the same url):
GET /bla/bla/bla.xml

HTTP/1.0 301 Redirect to secure server
Location: https://bla:443/bla/bla/bla.xml

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