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

[spoggle]

You need to be careful with loading URLs -  The comment in the
httpinfo source says it's not multi-threaded, hence if you block on
fetching, you block the entire daemon from running.

dave c

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:41:37 -0600, Andrew Hodel <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> 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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