d-bus over http?

[Avery Pennarun]

On 14/02/2008, brien colwell <xcolwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Has anyone thought about adding an HTTP connection layer to D-Bus? The
>  goal with this would be to allow web apps to participate in a
>  communication channel (with each other and other apps).

It would be rather easy to write such a thing using a library like
wvdbus (http://alumnit.ca/wiki/?WvDBus) or by writing a trivial cgi
script in perl or python.

The problems I can imagine would be:

1) Authentication: how do you decide who a random web app identifies
itself as on the bus?

2) Session management and signals: some dbus servers track when your
connection starts/ends or send signals to broadcast or to registered
listeners.  How would you save up these signals to send to the web app
next time it does a query?

Of course, a basic implementation could just punt on these questions
and still be potentially useful.

Have fun,

Avery