MPOWerd: lol, before I had MacOS 8.5 with apple
personal websharing, I hacked together a web server in
RealBasic.
Alain: Do you still have it? Does it work? Is it
modular? Could we reuse some parts?
MP0werd: Trust me, you do not want to see it, RB is slooooow, not suitable
for serving files. I only wrote it so I could log onto my computer and
remotely control it from school.
MPOWerd: It could rewrite the pages so that they
pointed to my new IP.
Alain: I am not sure that I understand what you mean.
MP0Werd: My IP is dynamic, if I want to include my ip in a URL, I could put a
server side include that would replace the tag with my IP
MPOWerd: It could allow me to telnet off my machine
from another machine.
Alain: Yes, that can indeed be useful, particularly in
the case of robots/agents for automation purposes.
MP0Werd: My sole purpose was getting over a firewall.
Alain: What I am particularly interested in at this
time would be web-server software that handles all of
the nuts & bolts of HTTP/CGI, auto-detects the
client's browser configuration and acts accordingly,
logs all transactions to a high-performance database
with reporting capabilities, and has some
sophisticated yet easy-to-configure security features.
MP0Werd: Whew, that's complicated, and I thought it was simply a matter of
parsing the GET/Post requests, sending a header and the file. The only
security my thingie had was a logon password system that would append an url
with a username and unique one time set of numbers to identify the session
(just to make sure no one got any bright ideas and used my computer to bounce
an attack). If I were to do it over again, I'd make sure each session only
stays open for a limited amount of time, and I'd make sure I'm not being
pounded, etc.
