Added support for parsing http:// names and mapping automatically to use

the .net plugin

include/osgDB/FileNameUtils

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ extern OSGDB_EXPORT std::string getStrippedName(const std::string& fileName);
 extern OSGDB_EXPORT bool equalCaseInsensitive(const std::string& lhs,const std::string& rhs);
 extern OSGDB_EXPORT bool equalCaseInsensitive(const std::string& lhs,const char* rhs);
 
+extern OSGDB_EXPORT bool containsServerAddress(const std::string& filename);
+extern OSGDB_EXPORT std::string getServerAddress(const std::string& filename);
+extern OSGDB_EXPORT std::string getServerFileName(const std::string& filename);
+
 }
 
 #endif

src/osgDB/FileNameUtils.cpp

@@ -115,6 +115,50 @@ bool osgDB::equalCaseInsensitive(const std::string& lhs,const char* rhs)
     return true;
 }
 
+bool osgDB::containsServerAddress(const std::string& filename)
+{
+    // need to check for http://
+    if (filename.size()<7) return false;
+    if (filename.compare(0,7,"http://")==0) return true;
+    return false;
+}
+
+std::string osgDB::getServerAddress(const std::string& filename)
+{
+    if (filename.size()>=7 && filename.compare(0,7,"http://")==0)
+    {
+        std::string::size_type pos_slash = filename.find_first_of('/',7);
+        if (pos_slash!=std::string::npos)
+        {
+            return filename.substr(7,pos_slash-7);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            return filename.substr(7,std::string::npos);
+        }
+    }
+    return "";
+}
+
+std::string osgDB::getServerFileName(const std::string& filename)
+{
+    if (filename.size()>=7 && filename.compare(0,7,"http://")==0)
+    {
+        std::string::size_type pos_slash = filename.find_first_of('/',7);
+        if (pos_slash!=std::string::npos)
+        {
+            return filename.substr(pos_slash+1,std::string::npos);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            return "";
+        }
+    
+    }
+    return filename;
+}
+
+
 // // here a little test I wrote to make sure a couple of the above methods are
 // // working fine.
 // void test()

src/osgDB/Registry.cpp

@@ -1596,6 +1596,35 @@ ReaderWriter::WriteResult Registry::writeHeightFieldImplementation(const HeightF
 
 ReaderWriter::ReadResult Registry::readNode(const std::string& fileName)
 {
+
+    if (containsServerAddress(fileName))
+    {
+        std::string serverName = getServerAddress(fileName);
+        std::string serverFile = getServerFileName(fileName);
+        osg::notify(osg::INFO)<<"Contains sever address : "<<serverName<<std::endl;
+        osg::notify(osg::INFO)<<"         file name on server : "<<serverFile<<std::endl;
+
+        if (serverName.empty())
+        {
+            return ReaderWriter::ReadResult("Warning: Server address invalid.");
+        }
+        
+        if (serverFile.empty())
+        {
+            return ReaderWriter::ReadResult("Warning: Server file name invalid.");
+        }
+
+        ReaderWriter* rw = getReaderWriterForExtension("net");
+        if (rw)
+        {
+            return rw->readNode(serverName+":"+serverFile,_options.get());
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            return  ReaderWriter::ReadResult("Warning: Could not find the .net plugin to read from server.");
+        }
+    }
+
     // record the errors reported by readerwriters.
     typedef std::vector<ReaderWriter::ReadResult> Results;
     Results results;