If you can use POST instead of GET, then there is no need to
url encode/decode the J sentence. Not sure if jhs understand
 POST since I'm not too familiar with jhs.

Ср, 11 ноя 2015, Ian Clark написал(а):
> Thanks @Bill.
> 
> I guess you meant: http://localhost:65001/foo?i.6
> (missing '1'). Even so, it doesn't work as it stands, even if you
> pre-create the locale: 'foo' empty. The locale 'foo' must contain a
> verb: jev_get . If you write it right, that's all it need contain.
> 
> Here's a tiny engine, which will accept a URL such as:
>    http://localhost:65001/jsengine?a=.3&b=.5&a+b
> and generate a webpage consisting of the string following the question mark.
> 
> The page content contains no html markup (which suits my purpose, if
> not everybody's) – but Firefox will happily display it nonetheless.
> 
> (Curiously, Firefox uses a different sized font on my Mac if you type
> 127.0.0.1 in place of localhost.)
> 
>    jev_get_jsengine_=: ([: htmlresponse_jhs_ '?' takeafter ' ' taketo
> gethv_jhs_) bind 'GET'  NB. all-one-line
> 
> This verb needs to be defined in the profile (or startup.ijs) that
> jhs.command loads when it launches. Plus other verbs, to provide a
> non-trivial J service.
> 
> Any J-er will see how to add further code to jev_get in order to parse
> such a string and execute the J phrases it contains, sending back a
> string value of the final result as the y-arg of htmlresponse. Also
> worth noting that at the point at which jev_get is run, there are two
> useful global caches, tables: HNV_jhs_ and NV_jhs_, containing info
> about the URL at the other end of the socket.
> 
> Now all that remains is to tweak NSTask to fetch the contents of a
> given URL -- and I'm home and dry.
> 
> Ian
> 
> PS: just for fun, here's a 1-line Hello World in the same vein…
> 
>    jev_get_hello_=: htmlresponse_jhs_ bind 'Hello World'
> 
> See it with: http://localhost:65001/hello
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:39 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > jhs itself does not depend on javascript. It is the browser front-end that
> > uses javascript.  Browser is not involved at all if you use wget or curl
> > to  run J sentences like a cgi such as
> >
> > wget http://localhost:6500/foo?i.6
> >
> > This is a headless server, requires no x window or any other display.  You
> > can call it a daemon. Of course you need a script that create a locale foo
> > on jhs.
> >
> > or you don't wget/curl at all if your programming environment already has
> > library support for http request.
> > On Nov 10, 2015 11:16 PM, "Ian Clark" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm glad you said that, Bill.
> >>
> >> JHS solves all the technical problems we've been discussing. It had
> >> occurred to me to use it instead of jconsole, but I took one look at
> >> the Javascript "baggage" and couldn't decide what was baggage and what
> >> was not.
> >>
> >> wget/curl --you've put your finger on the way in.
> >>
> >> I'm short of time and having to be ruthless over which lines I pursue.
> >> It would re-jig my priorities to see the sample code of:
> >> http://jsoftware.com/help/user/cmdline.htm
> >> reformulated to use jhs instead of jconsole.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:04 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Another way is to keep a running jhs, and send request to it using
> >> > wget/curl. It also uses sockets but you need zero knowledge of socket
> >> > programming.
> >> > On Nov 10, 2015 10:51 PM, "Ian Clark" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> > The problem with the daemon approach is making sure the daemon is
> >> alive
> >> >>
> >> >> Too right, @Joe.
> >> >>
> >> >> As I said in my (discarded) reply to Raul:
> >> >>
> >> >> …with all the attendant problems for the client of finding out: have
> >> >> you finished yet? -- are you alive? -- are you actually installed? --
> >> >> and package it all up for general release, with no requirement for
> >> >> customer customization, and be transparent to the user. The "user" in
> >> >> this case being a novice J programmer, who is basically a novice in
> >> >> any form of programming.
> >> >>
> >> >> Why are you and I the only J-ers who see this? :-)
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >> >> However, my "silly" solution (suggested earlier) is indeed robust –
> >> >> >> and I've just been doing experiments on this:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>  $ jconsole -js a=.23 b=.3 "echo a*b" "exit''"
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks for elaborating
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Looks like a solid, simple solution to me. I wouldn't touch the
> >> >> > sockets unless there was too much overhead in getting J back to the
> >> >> > state desired to execute against (e.g. loading a large file)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I've also used the 'silly' solution with J in a webapp awhile back to
> >> >> > avoid mucking around with sockets and threads.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > The problem with the daemon approach is making sure the daemon is
> >> alive
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