way to listen to port 127.0.0.1

[Bill Marriott]

You're on the right track.

If what you really need to do is to communicate with Rev from your web page, 
you could set up Revolution as a very simple web server on a *different* 
port -- Safari will use port 80 by default -- and send it a command in the 
form of a URL or POST command. You don't want to have the two applications 
(Safari and Rev) stepping on each other, trying to use the same port.

Andre Garzia's RevOnRockets has a basic web server implementation, but I 
don't know if you'd even need that fully-featured of a solution.

http://www.andregarzia.com/RevOnRockets/

> So, that puts me to Plan B:
>
> Since this is a touch-screen kiosk environment and I have full-control 
> over the hardware/software, I'd like to just use "SAFT", which is software 
> that makes Safari run in full-screen mode, and then have a silent version 
> of Rev running in the background waiting for it's cue.? When it receives 
> the cue, it needs to print some data to a thermal-label printer attached 
> to the kiosk.
>
> I am was hoping that I could have a javascript on a web-page that passes 
> data to 127.0.0.1:80, and then have my Rev app ready to receive that data.
>
> I'm not suceeding, however, and I could use some assistance with the 
> scripting.?
>
> Something like:
>
> open socket "127.0.0.1:80"
> read from socket "127.0.0.1:80" with message "gotdata"
>
> and then on the web-page:
>
> a href="127.0.0.1:80">Click me to test sending a message to Revolution</a>