I'm not talking about making the http server open to anyone; it could limit itself to 127.0.0.1 for the type of thing I'm talking about.
-- William McKeehan KI4HDU http://mckeehan.homeip.net On Tue, October 9, 2007 3:16 pm, Gerry Creager wrote: > William McKeehan wrote: >> On Tue, October 9, 2007 2:46 pm, Brad Douglas wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Well, I'm thinking about a limited http server as part of Xastir, not >> necessarily on port 80 (the default http port). It would be similar to the >> current Xastir server port. I think we could find code for a simple http >> engine to incorporate into the Xastir code that is neither excessive nor >> insecure. > > Lots of (real) security professionals will ask serious questions about > standing up a web server on a port besides 80, 8080 or 8000. Be > prepared to have to answer those questions. Also, I cringe everytime I > think of the port-scamming APRS-IS is already involved in. We should > have written the spec, gone to IANA and gotten a port-list, and > implemented it. > >>> IMO, wxPython is the way to go for GUI development. >> >> My suggested approach would let people develop a GUI in multiple >> environments >> and provide a standard "API" to facilitate this development. > > That works if we're looking at exposing an interface and expecting folks > to write to it, ala SOAP. Unfortunately, then, every new SOAP service > starts looking like a "one-off" and the eventual consolidation of WSDLs > and SOAP implementations will result in... xml-rpc, which has already > been around for quite awhile. > >>> I highly recommend you look into REST[1] before proceeding. >>> >>> [1] >>> http://www.workflowresearch.com/Publications/PDF/MIZU.JENI.KESW-DSS(2004).pdf > > gerry > -- > Gerry Creager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University > Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.862.3982 FAX: 979.862.3983 > Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 > > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir