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From: jbv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sockets vs. POST
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 16:23:44 +0000
>Actually, that's what I'm planing to do. I have a few pending
>projects for which the clients want a CD-ROM version + an
>online version. My idea is (basically) to develop only 1 app,
>on which I'll discociate the interface from the rest (core scripts
>and data structures). On the CD-ROM version the interface will
>be regular MC btns & flds, while the online version will
>require HTML pages. The idea is to setup the small custom
>protocol for communication between the core of the app and
>the interface. On the CD-ROM version, this will be done by
>sending messages with parameters to various handlers, and
>in the online version, the same syntax will be used for
>communication between the client PC (featuring the HTML
>pages) and the MC app on the server.
>
>Any thought / previous experience & comments on this ?
Thats what I am working on now...I have a graphics intensive client side
(CD) that communicates with the MetaCard server (I get to host it..one of
the advantages? of being on a campus with very fast connections). It will
serve updates (just the URLs of the updates, I am going to use a regular
old web server to hand out the actual files that get send over the net) and
things like announcements and participant/trainer communications.
I am writing a proposal (now) to convert the majority of the client side
(minus the video, probably..but probably optional) to web pages. Extremely
simple since all of my images are linked gif's anyway, and I can use the
same web server to keep files current. I may choose to make them somewhat
dynamic through an MC server, but I have not done any heavy load testing
with it to make sure that it will keep up.
Check out my sample sockets stack at:
http://www.tenet.edu/teks/language_arts/testsite/downloads/mc/mc.html
..that has a simple MetaCard client->MetaCard server communication example.
There is a mchttp (not mine) sample on the MetaCard site, too.
The power of the sockets and the very simple scripting language makes MC a
wonderful tool for this hybrid implementation. The time and cost savings
over something like Java development are HUGE. And, the end result is better!
--
Of course, that begs the question (as I writing the proposals)
What is the ultimate machine to act as a MetaCard server? Linux? RS6000?
NT? OSX?
Anyone?
Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Graduate Research Assistant v: (512) 232 6034
Instructional Technology f: (512) 232 2322
Center for Reading and Language Arts
University of Texas at Austin
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