[OLSR-users] Re: [olsr-dev] httpinfo plugin

[Andrew Hodel]

I have updated the files at http://www.nxwi.com/olsr to include support 
for selecting which file on the system to load into the other tab based 
on a loadplugin parameter.

right now you can define othersource to the location of any file and it 
should show on the httpinfo other tab.

I later plan on allowing a http:// url to be entered as the value of the 
othersource parameter which will load a file over http.

I would also like to have another parameter, othername, which can be set 
to change the name of the other tab.  I have tried for hours and cannot 
figure a way to get the return value from a function into the struct 
that loads the tab information.  If anyone can help, please do.



Thanks,
Andrew Hodel


Andrew Hodel wrote:

> I like to be able to change the way the httpinfo plugin looks easily.  
> This is because my plans are to have people looking to the httpinfo 
> page for more information, gps locations, temperature, ...
>
> We are installing nodes on boats so this will be useful information.
>
> Perhaps a better way of implementing this would be a parameter in 
> olsrd.conf where you load the httpinfo module.
>
> othersource="file"
> or
> othersource="http://domain.tld/file.ext"
> and if othersource is not set, don't include the other tab.
>
> From here you could load your xml file via the fs, or over http.
>
> However, I wouldn't load the xml file directly into the other tab as 
> it would only display the actual xml doc.  I would setup a perl or 
> bash script that parses all of the information you want to display and 
> write to a file.  Then set othersource to the location of the output 
> file.
>
> I could also setup an othersourcename parameter in the plugin load 
> that will allow you to set the name of the tab.
>
> I will get to work on implementing the "other" tab based on parameters 
> set when loading httpinfo, if anyone has anything to consider or wants 
> easily editable css/html files, speak up.
>
>
>
>
> Andrew
>
> Aldert J.B.P. Hazenberg wrote:
>
>> I do not really understand why 'you; would like to do this.
>>
>> But I could easily oversee a good reason, can you elaborate a bit so
>> my feedback could be of better quality ?
>>
>>
>> Myself I am more interrested in an XML 'tab'/URL in httpinfo so I can
>> read the XML from all my nodes and compile and display them on a central
>> place. (Something like http://<name or ip>:8080/xml )
>>
>> Aldert.
>>
>>
>> Andrew Hodel wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> If there is an interest other then mine in having external files for 
>>> the
>>> httpinfo plugin that allow users to change the css layout and default
>>> text of the output, I would be willing to implement it.
>>>
>>> I have cross posted this to the users and dev lists to get user input.
>>>
>>> The only problem I can see with this is multiple olsrd config files in
>>> /etc, this could be fixed by creating an /etc/olsrd directory for all
>>> olsrd config files.
>>>
>>> Any comments.. anyone?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrew Hodel
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew Hodel wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> I made a few changes for the httpinfo plugin from cvs today.
>>>>
>>>> There is a new menu option, "Other", which will display the contents
>>>> of the file /etc/olsr.other
>>>>
>>>> I also added a section to the About page describing the Other page,
>>>> and fixed a missing close tag for li in the html source.
>>>>
>>>> I am having 2 problems:
>>>> 1.If the file /etc/olsr.other is not there, olsrd segfaults.  There is
>>>> error checking when opening the file but it is not working.
>>>>
>>>> 2. If the file /etc/olsr.other only contains 1 line, it will be
>>>> printed twice.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone can use or improve this, please do.  I use it to show
>>>> information from other sources easily on the httpinfo plugin, i.e.
>>>> another daemon writing to the file.  This way I don't have to use C to
>>>> show something simple, bash, perl, python, _anything_ can write to a
>>>> file.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> P.S. modified olsrd_httpinfo.c & html.h at: http://www.nxwi.com/olsr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Andrew Hodel
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