Thomas Haws wrote: > Shane, I'd like to follow up on this: > > On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes. The installer will put the web app in the Program Files directory >> and a shortcut will be added to the menu and desktop. The shortcut will >> both launch the web app and launch the user's browser once the web app >> has started. It's not hard to do. An icon in the system tray will >> indicate the web app is running and give the user the opportunity to >> stop it. > > So when I open my browser and view source for a given page, I will see > <form action=" what?
You'll see something like: <form action="http://localhost:8080/scouttracker/some/path";> "localhost" is the standard self-referential host name; that is, localhost nearly always points the browser to a server running on the same computer. Technically, it's a little deeper than that. "localhost" normally maps to the IP address 127.0.0.1, and the entire address block 127.* is normally serviced by a special loopback network interface provided by the operating system. Virtual servers change that assumption sometimes, but for desktops, you can rely on either localhost or 127.0.0.1. > Expanding my mind here, what are the known species of form action > scripts, and which are most amenable to Windows deployment? > > PHP > CGI > ASP > JSP Those are all a little different from what I'm hoping for. They all expect a complex web serving infrastructure like Apache, IIS, Tomcat, etc. If you instead build on a general purpose programming language, the web server can be embedded right in the code and portability is easy. Most general purpose languages have libraries for running your own embedded web server. > And last of all, am I even asking the right question? I am assuming > we are talking about a web browser application. Yes. It's a browser application with an installer that makes it usable as a quasi-desktop application. Shane _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
