Re: [Leaf-devel] weblet the like

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
soapboxPersonally, 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

Re: [Leaf-devel] weblet the like

2002-02-05 Thread guitarlynn
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 08:16, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: IMHO, there's nothing inherently wrong with GUI config tools (properly secured). I would like to see a consistent configuration system for the next generation LEAF that allows text-based menu configiguration via scripts on the

Re: [Leaf-devel] weblet the like

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
hehe, Linuxconf more like Webmin :) OK, that pretty much eliminates any CGI except shell then. It's likely the best option, being the perl is not possible on a floppy. I imagine licensing would be a issue with vitually any other scripting language anyway. Not necessarily, although

RE: [Leaf-devel] weblet the like

2002-02-05 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
Nothing nailed down so-far...the whole enchalida is up for grabs! I'd especially like to see a clean, extensible, understandable method for setting up complex networking configurations static routes, since we're Something like a meta-defninition that goes in the package (currently

Re: [Leaf-devel] weblet the like

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Nothing nailed down so-far...the whole enchalida is up for grabs! I'd especially like to see a clean, extensible, understandable method for setting up complex networking configurations static routes, since we're Something like a meta-defninition that goes in the package (currently

Re: [Leaf-devel] weblet the like

2002-02-05 Thread guitarlynn
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 14:52, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: sh-httpd could be modified to include POST, but it might be better to use something like mini-httpd, or perhaps a web-server written in an scripting alternate language (if we include something like java, ruby, c). If we stick

Re: [Leaf-devel] weblet the like

2002-02-04 Thread guitarlynn
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. :) soapboxPersonally, I think there's something fundamentally wrong with managing a firewall/router through a web-based

Re: [Leaf-devel] weblet the like

2002-02-04 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
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 ? If you've got the space, sh-httpd (or