On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:03 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote: > Brad Douglas wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 14:27 -0400, William McKeehan wrote: > >> Well, the last time we discussed this, I think this is where the discussion > >> ended (after we managed to get a piglatin translation added to the > >> repository). > >> > >> I've been playing and thinking about this a fair amount. What about using > >> HTML/JavaScript/XML ala Ajax? This would require Xastir having an "http" > >> style > >> server that would serve up pages and would respond to certain queries with > >> XML > >> code. For example if Xastir's server were listening on port 8001, > >> http://localhost:8001/getStationInformation?callsignssid=KI4HDU-2 would > >> respond with something like > >> <station> > >> <CallsignSSID>KI4HDU-2</CallsignSSID> > >> <PacketsReceived>75</PacketsReceived> > >> <LastHeard>10/04/2007 14:05:08</LastHeard> > >> <Comments> > >> <Comment>10/04 14:05 : .open2300v1.10</Comment> > >> <Comment>10/04 14:00 :</Comment> > >> </Comments> > >> . > >> . > >> . > >> </station> > > > > Are you suggesting that everyone have a working http server on their > > local machine? That is quite an excessive (and generally insecure) > > method of accomplishing the given goal, locally. > > I don't seem to have too much in the way of security problems with web > servers on darned near everything we stand up, either apache or tomcat. > We also run some stand-alone systems. I do tend to look for > excessive, unsuccessful login attempts and automatically block them, and > my iptables rules are pretty tight, but standing up a basic web server > and securing it isn't a big deal. Or, am I demonstrating, again, how > warped I've become?
I prefer to not require that users be as security minded as we are. It's a problem waiting to happen, not to mention the fact that users will be required to install and properly setup a web server and the necessary extensions (mapserver/FDO?) in the first place. Even I have trouble getting FDO to install properly (damn you, Autodesk! ;-). [snip] > >> Does this sound like something that would be useful? Personally, I think > >> this > >> would let people develop their own APRS "interface" using Xastir to do the > >> heavy lifting - and I think that if done correctly, this would eventually > >> let > >> you run Xastir in a daemon mode and only use this interface if you wanted > >> to. > > > > IMO, wxPython is the way to go for GUI development. > > IMNSHO, either will do. I write more javascript these days than python, > as someone else has become the python guru around here. Again, similar to Java, JS is write once; test everywhere; rewrite; test; rewrite; test... Not all JS behaves equally in all browsers. :-( Python is surprisingly easy to learn and does not suffer to licensing and flame wars others are subjected to. I've made my case so I'll shut up, now. YMMV. -- 73, de Brad KB8UYR/6 <rez touchofmadness com> _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
