On Monday 04 February 2002 08:21, Angelacos, Nathan wrote: > Lynn wrote regarding the Mosquito distribution: > > I have been busy looking at some CGI options myself lately. :) > > <soapbox>Personally, I think there's something fundamentally wrong > with managing a firewall/router through a web-based interface, but it > seems that I'm the only one who feels this way...</soapbox>
Nope, your not alone. _Many_ of us feel exactly that way, but may don't and this limits the user base. If this config weblet is loaded as a package, you are only as unhappy as you make yourself :) > I've been working on and off on integrating lua into a web server to > provide an inline embedded scripting language, similar to PHP. For > example: > The above generates a web page that "knows" the local hostname... you > get the idea (I hope.) I got micro_httpd working, but it only > supports GET requests, so I switched to working with mini_httpd. GET > requests work, but I'm still working on the correct approach for > POSTS... Kewl, it would need to POST, but the size (on a floppy) is the problem as you mentioned. > Advantages I see to this approach are: > > Let the web server handle the access control, logging, etc. (better > security) > web pages should be more portable across the LEAF distributions > mini_httpd can be built with SSL support, if desired > inline-scripting is cool > > Disadvantages mainly involve size: > The statically-linked lua library adds 50-70K to the web server > code; lua-enabled mini_httpd is just under 100K in size. (UPX gets it > to less than half of that, though). > > > Does anyone out there see a need/use for this kind of thing? Or do > you think the standard CGI scripting is fine? (I do realize you can > fit alot of weblet pages in 100K) I would agree with everything there, but I feel that the standard CGI is fine _on_ the distribution. SSL will be absolutely necessary for anything run externally, which brings us back to the chicken-n-egg question .... is sh-httpd configurable for SSL ? -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
