ANN: revHTTPd next generation (please read, many many goodies inside)

[Simon Brown]

Wow. Very interesting. Will have to spend some time playing around with 
this.

Wondering about the security aspects of this though. Could a carefully 
designed stack with this feature be safe? Would the data have to be 
locked (static) only?

Simon.


On Jan 19, 2004, at 9:19 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Some might know my old project revHTTPd which is a web server made in 
> revolution. Some might even notice a project called btnHTTPd which is 
> a self contained web server in a button. Well, I just made a huge 
> effort this month to deliver you all the next generation of HTTPd 
> interfaces. My english is a little bad and there are no many news that 
> I am afraid I deliver them in a fuzzy way. Let's go slowly now.
>
> First the server is now a self contained button, you might add it to 
> any project of yours by placing it on your stack. You configure it by 
> it's custom properties and command it by sending messages to it.
>
> The focus on this project is not to serve web pages but to connect 
> Revolution to a Browser interface. Althought the server can serve 
> local files, It's true marvels are what it can do to serve stacks as 
> pages.
>
> First we've got a cool URL mapping scheme that is like this:
>
> /Stack								---> Send default_html to the stack.
> /Stack/Message						---> Send message to the Stack
> /Stack/Card/Message					---> Send message to card of stack.
> /Stack/Card/Button/Message				---> Send message to button of card of 
> stack (this is like a design decision, messages default to button if 
> no object type is present)
> /Stack/Card/ObjectType/ObjectName/Msg	---> Send msg to obj of card of 
> stack like: /MainStack/1/field/email/clearText (would send "clearText" 
> to field email)
>
> This way I can for example access a URL a button like this 
> http://home.soapdog.org:8081/quotes/2/button/refreshquotes/mouseUp, 
> this would trigger the mouseUp of button adduote on card 2 of stack 
> quotes. Pretty easy! Enought for URLs.
>
> The server is now supporting the POST method and GET method, it will 
> look for POST Data and look inside document request URL for GET 
> data... it will map HTML/URL Field names to Revolution Field names, so 
> if I access http://home.soapdog.org:8081/about?card=1 it will look for 
> stack "about" and for a text field named card in it, if it find one it 
> will fill it with "1", Thats automatic. It fills the fields before 
> sending the message (so that you can proccess them). This way you can 
> write whole web apps just by using our familiar ways of stacks, cards, 
> fields and messages.
>
> We created a Revolution Field to Web Engine called Inform. Inform can 
> take any card of any stack and will parse it taking all fields and 
> making a nice HTML form of it. It will fill the form with the currrent 
> fields values, and since the server do the map back automatically, you 
> can focus on the "processPost" message that is sent to your stack for 
> the rest is taken care.
>
> For you all to wonder, with this framework I was able to create a Blog 
> engine in 10 lines, was able to create a Fotolog engine in also 10 
> lines. I created a Instant Message in some 30 lines.
>
> I want to stress test and demo this new server before releasing it 
> this week, so if you're interested in it or plain curious, point you 
> browser to http://home.soapdog.org:8081
> I am leaving this server running here, fiddle with it leave feedback, 
> see the runtime screenshots... inspect it the way you can, it's a nice 
> job. Mind that my home connection is not the best one and the server 
> is not failsafe yet... but you might like it...
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Andre Garzia ð 2003
> imac2 ibook p100 e uma torradeira....
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