At 16:23 04/10/2005 -0700, David M. Cook wrote: >On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:44:38PM -0700, Paul G. Allen wrote: > >> I like this idea and will mark this post so I can look into the links >> later. Embedding a browser with the app. sounds like a better solution than >> installing Apache with the app. (even though a standard Apache install is >> as easy as many other applications). > >Bruce Eckel wrote an article about this > >http://mindview.net/WebLog/log-0045 > >With Python's webbrowser module and twisted this is really easy: > > # start the server with my root page > reactor.listenTCP(8080, appserver.NevowSite(RootPage())) > # open the default web browser after the server has started > reactor.callWhenRunning(webbrowser.open, "http://localhost:8080";) > reactor.run() > # we'll call reactor.stop() when the user clicks the 'Quit' link. > >The user never needs be root to install or use this.
But it still doesn't solve the Windows problem of having to download or bundle a bunch of stuff just to get a simple web server. On Windows, I use TinyWeb from RitLabs <http://www.ritlabs.com> It's only 53Kbytes and can easily be installed by anyone. Just uncompress it to a directory and create a shortcut. Of course, that is still probably too much for most Windows users. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
