This project is aiming to create a http(s) based file system, that parses HTML and serves it as a filesystem. <a> links pointing to other HTML pages are represented as folders, links pointed to other resources are represented as files. Other tags, such as <img>, <video>, <audio> are also parsed and represented as files.

There are other projects that are trying to achieve something simmilar, but these are not quite as awesome:

• http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/ - allows to mount only one file over http
• https://github.com/cyrus-and/httpfs - requires server side php script

Implemented HTML parsing prototype using QGumboParser. Http client rewritten with Promise-like callbacks. Implemented cache and tests. By the look of it, everything works fine.

Everything works 95% of time. There is still probably a bug in caching or http client.

Found a problem: some servers do not return content-length, so http client must be rewritten...

Currently project works only with my own localhost server, because HTML parser is not yet implemented and I had to hardcode parsed elements manually.

Cache is mocked too, no real implementation yet. Most likely I will have to rewrite it to handle identical parallel requests better.

Currently project serves only two hardcoded files. As of now http(s) client side and parser is missing. Http client will be finished on next free weekend.

Proof of concept was rewritten to support async lowlevel api and now depends only on fuse and qt.

Currently project is in "proof of concept" state. For now it only allows reading files in a very inefficient way and there is no folder support.

TODO:

• Support more HTML tags
• Symlink support
• create virtual file _index.html for debugging reasons
• DBus progress indicator???
• virtual ERROR file???
• Parameter validation

• libfuse (fuse3)
• qt >= 5.10

cd wwwfs
git submodule update --init --recursive
mkdir build
cd build
qmake ../main.pro
make

executable will be located in the 'src' directory (wwwfs/build/src/wwwfs).

./wwwfs --help
./wwwfs www.example.com mount_point
./wwwfs -o avoid-thumbnails 370chan.lt/a mount_point