Re: SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread Kai Blin
On Thursday 22 March 2007 19:39, Carl Fongheiser wrote: > Try reading the stuff under "About BITS", in particular the page titled > "Life Cycle of a BITS Job". > It states quite clearly there that it uses HTTP or HTTPS (or SMB in newer > versions). Nothing mysterious. Yes, I know, it's still not

Re: SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 3/22/07, Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 22 March 2007 18:43, James Hawkins wrote: > Check out: > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa362820.aspx That's what I was reading. It provides good information about the COM interface, but not about the implementation. Tr

Re: SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread Kai Blin
On Thursday 22 March 2007 18:43, James Hawkins wrote: > On 3/22/07, Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 22 March 2007 16:00, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > Several applications require BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer > > > Service). Adding an implementation of BITS would be quite usef

Re: SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread James Hawkins
On 3/22/07, Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 22 March 2007 16:00, Dan Kegel wrote: > Several applications require BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer > Service). Adding an implementation of BITS would be quite useful. This intrigued me, so I poked at the information on BITS a li

Re: SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread Kai Blin
On Thursday 22 March 2007 18:06, Juan Lang wrote: > > Anyway, I don't know what shape our iphlpapi is in, but I think it > > should be possible to at least get the basic features working in the > > context of a SoC project. > > Okay, I'll bite. I looked at the BITS docs too, and it uses > GetBestI

Re: SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread Kai Blin
On Thursday 22 March 2007 18:03, Jesse Allen wrote: > > Go for it, people, only three days to do some more research on this. :) > > Is three days enough? How much are we really supposed to know before > we apply for a project? If I take this idea for example, I don't know > anything at all about i

Re: SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread Juan Lang
> Anyway, I don't know what shape our iphlpapi is in, but I think it > should be possible to at least get the basic features working in the > context of a SoC project. Okay, I'll bite. I looked at the BITS docs too, and it uses GetBestInterface to pick an interface, and some interface stats to de

Re: SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread Jesse Allen
On 3/22/07, Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 22 March 2007 16:00, Dan Kegel wrote: > Several applications require BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer > Service). Adding an implementation of BITS would be quite useful. This intrigued me, so I poked at the information on BITS a li

Re: SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread Kai Blin
On Thursday 22 March 2007 16:00, Dan Kegel wrote: > Several applications require BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer > Service). Adding an implementation of BITS would be quite useful. This intrigued me, so I poked at the information on BITS a little. MSDN provides some fluff about using it, bu

SoC idea: add BITS support

2007-03-22 Thread Dan Kegel
Several applications require BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service). Adding an implementation of BITS would be quite useful. http://www.darvin.de/english/ is an interactive front end for BITS. The other apps I know of that require it are Visual C# Express 2005 and Google Pack, but there a