Hi Martin, Hi Chris,
first I don't like to reduce the features of the web interface. I only think about the minimal first porting effort.
Martin Bartosch wrote:
in my opionion it would be best to start with a command line client. Initialization is (IMO) a task that can easily be performed on the command line, a web frontend is not really necessary for this. Same for batch processor, backup and recovery.
I agree.
In addition, if you start by implementing the CLI interface, you will get a running system very quickly. The complete web frontend will take a lot of work to port, I think. So how about porting only the strictly CA/RA/Pub related functions and have other stuff handled via CLI.
This was the idea in the background :)
Maybe this is also the time to think about a new way to implement the web interface. The way it is implemented currently has some drawbacks: code and HTML generation is not separated, and the HTML is not very readable when output via print statements. In addition the CGI interface is not very fast because each request requires re-reading the etc/servers config files.
I think there are two major issues that can be improved:
- in addition to CGI interface also add a method for direct invocation by Apache, i. e. via mod_perl - introduce a template oriented web frontend implementation. My favourite implemtenation is HTML::Mason, maybe Template will also work. I've already done a (simple) frontend using HTML::Mason before and found it extremely powerful and easy to work with. Maybe a good idea for OpenCA as well.
I'd volunteer for a sample implementation of an alternative web frontend, but I am not sure how much time I can spend for this currently. Will take some time before something useful emerges. What do you think, should I try to do this?
Yes, definitely. If you take a look at the actual HTML code then it is not really nice or clean.
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