[Olsr-dev] Hello

[Sean Swezey]

by HTTP based gui, do you mean a web page? (i don't think so) or a gui which communicates via GET/POST messages?

also, I am not able to git clone the repository. using git:// I get no route to host, and with http:// I get info/refs not found. I can download from github fine, is the repository down, or am I just missing something?
On Mar 23, 2010, at 19:55, Henning Rogge wrote:

> Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 19:37:00 schrieb Sean Swezey:
>> I am joining the list as I am interested in making a GUI for OLSRd for the
>> Freifunk group for GSoC. This is just a formal hello (I think my original
>> email was forwarded to this list already). I am looking for some advice on
>> how to get involved, and to get started, thanks!
> Hello, welcome on board...
> 
> I think there are two possible ways to get towards a good GUI.
> 
> First would be a C++ programm based on QT, this way we can easily build the 
> stuff on Windows, Mac and Linux. The programm would connect to a plugin in the 
> OLSRd which allows it to read from the system and display it. Later this 
> programm could be improved by set some parameters of OLSRd through the plugin.
> 
> The other option (which I would prefer) is a plugin which creates a http based 
> GUI. We already have a compact HTTP-server implementation in the master branch 
> which does all the normal stuff like header parsing, HTTP-GET/POST decoding 
> and sending the results to the client. You can add callbacks for certain 
> 'files' or 'directories' of the http-server where you generate the content.
> A first step might be to do a reimplementation of the old (and partly buggy) 
> httpinfo plugin for the new http-server. Then enhance it with more or cleaner 
> information. Later versions of the plugin could allow the user to set some 
> parameters, but this would imply some security concept (the http-server 
> supports basic http-authentification).
> If you want to use the second way we would backport the http-server of the 
> master branch into a plugin. This way you can do your work with the current 
> stable branch and we can easily use the plugin for the 0.7.0 release.
> 
> Henning Rogge