John Cusick wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Bob Meyer wrote:
> > Harold Hartley wrote:
> >
> > > you can find the web site at http://www.tapr.org/~wa0ptv and it tells
> > > you the concept of it..
> >
> ....
> > My question is; what does it have to do with web pages?
> >
> > Bob
>
> Bob, et. al.
>
> This is sort of a synopsys of the article for those who do not reveive
> QST:
>
> It is a configurable server designed for limited web pages from the
> internet to include callbook servers, dxcluster, or any other service you
> wish to provide and will interface to http on the 'net.
>
> According to the QST article (written by John Hansen, W2FS) the server
> uses UI frames exclusively, so essentially it runs in broadcast mode all
> the time. So what I gather is that depending on the request and baud rate
> of the requesting station, different information replies to the requester
> are sent (it is up to the requesting stationor server to determine
> efficiency of his/her connection - baud rate, etc.).
>
> In other words, the server understands a request qrz://kb6fst and does a
> callsign lookup. Or html://kb6fst.ampr.org and recieves html markup
> homepage - obviously ineficient at 1200 baud, but graphics would be
> possible at higher speeds. Or http://kb6fst.ampr.org and gets a text only
> reply of the homepage with no markup - for slow connections.
>
> The server is setup to allow/deny types of requests/pages available based
> on the chosen setup and appears to be very flexible, particularly for
> mobile sites. There is a client program for "browsing" available, although
> its possible to use a terminal if you ignore the headers.
>
> There are more examples in the article in QST. It looks very interesting.
> I may have to accelerate my reading of "Learning Perl"
>
Okay it's a file server using ax25 in disconnected mode. Kind of an aprs
style file server.
Wouldn't this work a lot better?
http://gw.ko6ri.ampr.org/bbs/cgi-bin/callbook.cgi?kb6fst All the end user
need do is install sv2agw's win98 stuff and point and click there way. This
really does work at 1200 baud. The interesting thing about this unconnected
file server is that the image files that reside on the client system could be
sent in that way. The server could transmit after not hearing anything for
some period of time and pause whenever it heard anything that was not related
to its function.
Bob
