Re: GUI, HTTP and LynxOS ( Was:Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE)

[Mario Amado Alves <maa@di.fct.unl.pt>]

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:

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> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:39:35 GMT, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> > In article <s45hmd7dmvm38@corp.supernews.com>,
> >   "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > 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).
> > 
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> 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).
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