general kio slave for reading embedded files

[Thiago Macieira]

Jos van den Oever wrote:
>I would like to port the kioslave that comes with Strigi to KDE4 and
>place it in kdelibs/kioslave/ or kdebase/runtime/kioslave/.
>The current name of the kioslave is jstream:// which is not good.
>Something like archive:// might be better.

I am not sure an ioslave is the best approach here.

I think this should be in libkio, working atop all ioslaves. That way, you 
can browse into archives in any ioslave, including remote files.

That in turn means the naming scheme has to change. The actual file name 
and the data inside the archive should be separated by a # (for an HTML 
file, # marks an anchor inside the file; for an archive, why not mark the 
file inside?). The reason for that is that, for remote files, the cost of 
statting to find out if they exist is too high. The information should be 
present at the start.

But this is just the external presentation. Strigi can stay unchanged.

In other words, I'd like this to work:
	file:///home/kde/a.zip#/b.tar.gz/x.rpm/y.deb/README
or
	file:///home/kde/a.zip#/b.tar.gz#/x.rpm#/y.deb#/README

as well as
	http://localhost/~kde/a.zip#/b.tar.gz/x.rpm/y.deb/README
	fish://remotehost/home/kde/a.zip#/b.tar.gz/x.rpm/y.deb/README
	ftp://remotehost/home/kde/a.zip#/b.tar.gz/x.rpm/y.deb/README

(Note all three represent different capabilities of KIO: fish is a 
random-access protocol; ftp is a filesystem but streaming-only protocol; 
http doesn't support directory listing)

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