[HECnet] Web-server under RSX-11M-PLUS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-04-15 02:57, Brian Hechinger wrote:
On 4/13/2012 12:13 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2012-04-13 16:44, Mark Benson wrote:
On 13 Apr 2012, at 15:11, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
<mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:

On 2012-04-13 16:03, Mark Benson wrote:

I'm sure we could work something out. Do you have some experience with
web servers? I have one or two questions that you might help me with...
Also, you could do some work on MIM, where the stack and tools are
already in place...

I work on AMP (apache/MySQL/PHP) for a living. I wouldn't ever claim to
be an expert on web servers but I know how apache works and where to
look up what I don't know ;)

Ah. Hmmm. I'm not sure how much that knowledge helps here, but maybe
it might be a good start anyway.
Right now, there is nothing like the CGI interface of Unix
web-servers. It might be something we could look at. The basic concept
of kicking off a subprocess, and using the output as the result is
nothing difficult. More tricky is the question of how to pass
information that in Apache and others are passed as environment
variables. Need to think about that one.
Scripting... Nothing exist yet. You could use IND, I guess, but it's
nothing like PHP. Also, no connection to any database as such from
IND. Using a HLL, like BASIC, you can always play with RMS, which
gives you lots of features. Or you could also go to Datatrieve...

I'd have to dust the cobwebs out of my brain, but I wrote a pretty
trivial web server years ago so I'm somewhat familiar with how that
works. It wasn't fancy and didn't do CGI or anything but I just might be
of some use, who knows! :)

If you have any questions let me know and I'll see what I can do.

It seems the web server is serving pages and jpegs now. Paul Konig reported some kind of problem viewing my jpeg, so if people can report the success/failure of that, it would help.

Otherwise, I'm about to extend it to be able to grab pages from peoples home directories. Once that is done, people can try adding their own pages on MIM, and we'll see what happens...

But the code is very small. The whole thing is 22 blocks of source code so far. All in BASIC+2. Should be very easy to follow code. Basically MIM::DU:[HTTPD]*.B2S. It's split into 7 files at the moment.

	Johnny

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