Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:34:41 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thoughts on the install and on Red Hat Linux. Message-ID: <853.817518881@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:37:18 PST." <199511271937.LAA05263@netcom22.netcom.com>
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> put in links for help files etc. I really should put > together a prototype.... anyway, if anyone is interested we > can explore this idea further. I'd like to see the prototype.. :-) Believe me, this idea has crossed my mind more than once. In another mailing list, I was talking with some folks for awhile about the idea of implementing "http server" capability for existing applications. Instead of going for a full httpd and CGI interface, you implement a library that allows pretty much any event driven application to "grow an HTTP port". You write your "forms" in a higher level pastiche of HTML and some sort of imbeded tags that let you specify which callback routines to call when a given HTML object is manipulated in some way. The viewer would see HTML, your legacy app would see a different sort of command interpreter. Would you be interested in exploring an option like that, as well as the option of using existing server technology and CGI? Jordan
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