On 19/12/2015 1:41 am, Tom Cleghorn wrote:
Hi,
Is there any means of controlling the HTTP headers Oxygen sends when using 'Open URL' from the File menu? I'm working with an API that uses Accept headers to return different subsets of a large document, and it'd be very useful to be able to control that within Oxygen too.
Off the top of my head, I'm not sure, but oXygen uses Apache's HttpClient so if there's a way to do it directly with that (probably) then you can probably tweak the built-in version(s) the same way. Expect to be fiddling with its innards directly, though, rather than using the GUI to set the headers. That, however is just if using the file menu method is a requirement for your writers. If it's not and it's just about opening connections by whatever method you like (e.g. a plugin pr external application call) then there's plenty of alternative methods, particularly if you're using an operating system with libcurl installed, for example. My weapon of choice if it had to be platform independent would be: external application call, plus Jython 2.7 (full 100MB install), plus the requests python module, plus oXygen API call to open the file when it finished downloading. Why? Because requests makes HTTP calls pleasant (and you can load your preconfigured headers, proxies and other parameters as a python dict ... or JSON. Oh, I've already checked, requests installs with Jython just fine. If it were just for me, though, I'd skip the Jython part and use the system install of either libcurl or Python 3.5 with requests. Probably the Python method because I've got plenty of similar stuff already using requests to share code with. Including bits to access the Tor network with it (most of my Twython delivered tweets end up going through that method, just to annoy the national surveillance systems weenies these days, but originally for the more traditional reason: to see if it would work). Regards, Ben