This section contains interface documentation to facilitate development
of other server side connectors to implement the new features of the browser:-
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Development Hints
Some hints for problems you may encounter developing a connector:-
- Make sure the HTTP Content-Type header is set to text/xml
for all commands expecting an XML response. The only
command that does not expect an XML response is the
FileUpload command, this expects an HTML response
(dont forget to include all the HTML preamble in
the response <html><head>... etc.)
- Make sure the HTTP Cache-Control header is set to no-cache
This prevents the browser from caching connector responses.
- If errors are allowed to escape into the output stream
this will result in client side problems, try to send
all server side errors to a debug file rather than
outputting them.
- The url attribute of the CurrentFolder element in XML output
should always include a user definable prefix to allow for
the http://sitename.etc to added.
- The path and url attribute of XML output must end in a /