- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:26:42 -0500
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, W3C TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 20:11 -0400, Mark Baker wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:47:19PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > [...] the correct way to implement IMAP via > > HTTP is to simply use HTTP on a virtual mapping of resources. > > The two protocols have almost identical capabilities, so the > > only translation needed is to map the stateful interaction of > > IMAP to appropriate resource states in HTTP and then extend > > HTTP's authentication to include IMAP's mechanisms. > > +1 FWIW, I implemented such a mapping, in part. It puts up a form where you can give an IMAP query and get results in HTML or in RDF; links from the HTML take you to messages or message parts. [[ This is a sort of IMAP<->HTTP proxy service. It's limited to my way of using IMAP (in particular, I archive all mail in Archive/YYYY-MMWW mailboxes. WW is week number). v 1.7 2002/02/12 15:07:04 ]] http://www.w3.org/2000/04/maillog2rdf/mid_proxy.py -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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