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[gaim-migrate @ 4595] Okay, a few new goodies in here! HTTP redirect support! Sean wants to be able to drag-and-drop themes from our new themes page, but they're hiding behind a script that redirects. Rather than lose functionality in the script, I added redirects here. Works like a charm. Smarter memory reallocation! The buffer was being reallocated every byte. That means 10,000,000 of data would cause 10,000,000 reallocations. Now it starts off with a buffer of 4096 (for HTTP headers) or 8192 (for data) and reads until it's full. When full, the buffer increases by half of the previous size. Content-Length support! The HTTP headers are scanned for a Content-Length header. If found, it uses this for the buffer instead of 8192. This should reduce the number of reallocations to 0. Have fun draggening-and-droppening. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)