On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Matthew J. Probst wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Randy Terbush wrote:
>
>> On that note, can I turn the conversation back to some type of API
>> to the config information? By adopting an API, a change in config
>> file format can be transparent to GUI developers.
>
>First, with an API inside apache we would have to rely upon the stability
>of the main httpd server itself.. I dont think we can rely on this..
I think you're misunderstanding what Randy's getting at. (assuming
that I'm not the one misunderstanding that is .. ) We're not
talking about an API inside Apache, but rather a seperate, built
from the ground up, configuration server that responds to a
standard telnet. From a GUI point-of-view, if you have a nice
easy API like the one he demonstrated it makes it very easy to
slap together a GUI wrapper to talk to the configuration server
through that API. Also, if you have an easy to use API like that,
you could write small expect-ish scripts to do bulk changes.
-Mark
