From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38d1fe109cd56c87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Subject: RE: GUI, HTTP and LynxOS Date: 1999/12/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 558403340 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: To: , X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr Importance: Normal X-Trace: menuisier.enst.fr 944709065 19828 137.194.161.2 (9 Dec 1999 03:11:05 GMT) Organization: ENST, France X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Dec 1999 03:11:05 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-09T03:11:05+00:00 List-Id: From: Bob Leif To: Mario Amado Alves et al. In the absence of an Ada implementation of a complete HTTP server, you should look at Amaya. It is free and available in source from the World Wide Web Consortium www.W3.org (W3C Open Source Software). Also, you might look at Jigsaw - The W3C's Web Server. It might be reasonable to create an Ada binding to Amaya. However, I have a very strong suspicion that an Ada web server could be the killer application we need. -----Original Message----- From: Mario Amado Alves [mailto:maa@di.fct.unl.pt] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 3:44 AM To: comp.lang.ada@list.deja.com Subject: Re: GUI, HTTP and LynxOS ( Was:Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE) To use HTML as an user interface device you need _only_ two _perfectly defined_ things: 1. A HTTP server (with at least CGI capability) 2. A web browser (e.g. Netscape Navigator) (Of course, a knowledge of the associated languages and conventions is also necessary.) To use a remote procedure call mechanism other than CGI, which is operating system shell based, you may in fact want to tamper with the server, or write one, and for that a working piece of source code would be very helpfull. But _that_ is exactly what is necessary---the source of an HTTP server, at least one implementing a working fragment of HTTP 1.1---_and nothing else_. Is (or has) any of these strange things---LynxOS, vxWorks, ETS---_the_ thing, i.e. a public Ada code version of a HTTP server? Alternatively, and since the browser makes all the work converting and editing the forms, one might want to tamper with the browser. Is there also a browser in Ada? Thanks. On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ed Falis wrote: > Message from the Deja.com forum: > comp.lang.ada > Your subscription is set to individual email delivery > > > On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:39:35 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article , > > "Vladimir Olensky" wrote: > > > > > > The approach for using WEB browser as user interface to an application > > > via uploaded HTML (XML) documents from the embedded HTTP server is > > > already implemented in LynxOS. > > > > vxWorks supports this as well, I believe. (I've never had occasion to > > try it out, myself). > > > > -- > > T.E.D. > > > And Phar Lap's ETS. Also has a nice library for on-the-fly HTML generation > and forms processing. (And there's an Ada binding to these with ObjectAda). > > - Ed > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Deja.com: Before you buy. > http://www.deja.com/ > * To modify or remove your subscription, go to > http://www.deja.com/edit_sub.xp?group=comp.lang.ada > * Read this thread at > http://www.deja.com/thread/%3C1103_943910164%40DZOG-CHEN%3E > | |,| | | |RuaFranciscoTaborda24RcD 2815-249CharnecaCaparica 351+212976751 |M|A|R|I|O| mob 939354005 |A|M|A|D|O|DepartmentoDeInformaticaFCT/UNL 2825-114 Caparica 351+212958536 |A|L|V|E|S| fax 212948541 | | | | | | maa@di.fct.unl.pt FCT 212948300 Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.