[Bug 778592] souphttpsrc: Add sessions/caching to souphttpsrc

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778592

Stephan Hesse <tchakabam at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Stephan Hesse <tchakabam at gmail.com> ---
Hey everybody

This sounds like a cool feature. I think this makes a lot of sense to have a
persistent pipeline life cycle surviving cache for HTTP (or other) resources.

I think the problem could be more generally addressed, and less libsoup
specific.

How about: a caching URI handler implementation that would generally
instantiate internally existing URI handler implementations and cache on the
filesystem previous results, while taking them from a specifically set path or
eventually using the actual URI handler to do a request if the cache does not
have the resource. Obviously, cache could be disabled at any point to force
refreshing a resource.

This could be made completely HTTP (or any other protocol) implementation
agnostic. It would just be about mapping a URI to a file storing the previously
downloaded data related to it.

I'd favor such a solution as it would be more generally addressed, solving more
issues while staying independent of further HTTP (or other) implementations and
libsoup specifics.

What do you think?

Cheers

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