On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, James M Kenefick wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a written problem definition of what
> a config gui should be able to do. I am surprised that there are so
Actually there has never been one, each developer has taken his own attack
at the problem. Part of what I am doing for the ApacheCon paper is a
summary of all the ideas, approaches and tradeoffs in attacking the
problem. I will post details (as I write them) for comment.
> few around... particularly web based.... is there some reason for
> this. finally I am fairly conversant in html as well as perl and I
> think I could have haave a fair go at a web based configuration tool
> but, I want to be sure that the idea of a web based config is sound
> to begin with. Any thoughts.
The issue of web based relates to how do you configure the web server you
are changing, what if changes stop the server -- can the GUI be that
trustworthy.. Also, what kind of security can be offered, simple password
is probably not sufficient. The answer has been to have a mini-server as
part of the UI tool. Even one written in perl would be an option.
Also, a SSL type server is really needed to make the tool trustworthly, if
it is used from remote sites -- which is pretty important.
You can also review the discussions since I started the archive in
April at:
http://gui.apache.org/gui-dev/archive/
BTW, does anyone know how to get hypermail to show dates next to each
entry -- I can't see an option for that.
Later ...
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