On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 07:04:58PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 10:35 -0700, Dr. Matthew Roller wrote:
> > Are you saying to install GNUmed and use it to connect to your
> > database? 
Yes, that'd be the idea. We set up a public database
precisely so that people can test the client without having
to install their own database which isn't entirely trivial
(but can certainly be done).

> I'm having a look at 0.1 release of Gnumed at present
Please do keep us posted on feedback good or bad on our
development list, Adrian. Thanks !

> > because going to that site with the web browser brings up
> > your apache test page, not knowing GNUmed's model, we need a little
> > more instruction on how to use your testing server.
> With the port added, I get a zero-sized reply here, it may be a good
> idea to arrange for the Gnumed back end to return banner if a
> web-browser connects to it on :5432 telling people what to do next.
Well, on that port one connects directly to our public
PostgreSQL server. While it's an excellent idea to make that
port return a banner if it's not seeing a valid database
package that would mean we would have to hack the source of
our PostgreSQL instance in the connection sequence. Which
from the point of view of security isn't the smartest thing
to do, unfortunately.

Karsten
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