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

[Andrew Hodel]

Creating an xml feed from the httpinfo plugin at /xml shouldn't be that 
hard to do.  It seems httpinfo already implements the http protocol well 
enough to do this.

I see no reason for this not being part of the httpinfo plugin, rather 
than olsrd itself.

I am going to start working on this project for my own needs, I will 
update the list with progress and sources.


p.s.  I agree, getting a http stream and displaying it within the plugin 
could be bad, a link is fine.  Although opening a file _could_ be bad, I 
think opening it read only should not cause any problems while adding a 
nice feature to httpinfo.



Thanks,
Andrew Hodel


Andreas Tønnesen wrote:

>
> Yepp, that is another solution. But then you are closing in on creating
> a front-end interface. A redesign of the old interface has been on our
> to-do list for some time...
> The httpinfo plugin was just ment to be a tool that was easy to use 
> and that runs on "everyting" without the need for extra
> services/applications.
>
> - Andreas
>
> Jan Kantert wrote:
>
>> Good evening!
>>
>> Would not it be enough to just export all data in XML and let the 
>> user put it all together using an XML-parser? Everybody could 
>> generate his own nice webpage using Apache and PHP or Perl.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> Am Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:55:37 +0200
>> schrieb Andreas Tønnesen <(spam-protected)>:
>>
>>
>>> Spoggle is absolutley right here, you cannot do this safley
>>> without making fundamental changes to the plugin(multithread it).
>>> In theory, even reading local files is blocking I/O and should
>>> not be done in the current plugin.
>>> This KISS style design(non-multithreaded) was chosen because
>>> the plugin should be as light weight as possible to be able to
>>> run on embedded systems of all kinds.
>>>
>>> But if the file is already available via HTTP, why not just add
>>> a link?
>>>
>>> - Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>>
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