[maemo-developers] passing arguments to hildon applications

[From: Andrew Daviel]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Andrew Daviel wrote:

> I.e. how to hildonize some app so it will work from the file manager or
> the browser, or make a wrapper that accepts a DBUS request to open a
> URL/file and does e.g. system("mplayer blah.wmv").

Someone told me about dbus-switchboard which does what I want:
http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFiles/utils/dbus-switchboard-1.2.0.all.deb
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=173560


But now I have a problem which seems a bit like the authentication 
problem you mentioned.

If I place a WAV file on a server e.g. http://example.com/foo/bar.wav,
and click a link to it in the browser, and click "open with 
media-player", the browser does a GET with Range: 0- and gets a partial 
result. This appears to be discarded and gnome-vfs then does a full GET 
on the URL and the sound plays.

But if I try to play a message from my voicemail system, gnome-vfs gets 
the wrong URL and media player says "media stream not found at given 
address"

GET /mycallpilot/open.asp?f_MsgNum=10&f_Format=WAV HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv6l; en-GB; rv:1.9a6pre)
   Gecko/20080606 Firefox/3.0a1 Tablet browser 0.3.7
   RX-34+RX-44+RX-48_DIABLO_4.2008.23-14
..
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:13:57 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=message.wav
Content-Length: 443438
Content-Type: audio/wav

then

GET /mycallpilot/message.wav HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: gnome-vfs/2.16.3 neon/0.25.4
TE: trailers
icy-metadata:1

HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found


Perhaps it is confused by the Content-Disposition header

-- 
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada