Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-19 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Thanks, Alex. Very confusing right now, but I'll archive your suggestion for future study. -- Nicolas Cueto ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pref

Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Hi Nick. I've gone back to your original question. The "right" way to do this undoubtedly involves sockets, which in turn requires a private web server (or very permissive web hosting company), so isn't readily available to most of us. But there is a way to do it using only simple ordinary Web

Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-19 Thread Bernard Devlin
Nicolas, some ISPs even provide a free permanent IP address on domestic ADSL. Of the top of my head, I can think of 2 large ISPs that do that in the UK. Wherever you are, it might just be a question of finding an ISP like that. Bernard On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: >>

Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Tweedly
Nicolas Cueto wrote: but Chatrev also runs from my LAN. Doesn't this require purchasing a permanent IP address from your ISP? No. Your IP address will not change during a single connected session, only when your DSL (or equivalent) line drops and restarts. So you can use dyndns ( ww

Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-18 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Thanks, Jim. I've made stacks/revcgis that rely on POST/GET. But the interaction is always one-off -- something's done and then the connection is cut. My understanding of sockets is that, once a socket connection's been made, then data can flow to and fro between any and all of the connected eleme

Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-18 Thread Nicolas Cueto
> but Chatrev also runs from my LAN. Doesn't this require purchasing a permanent IP address from your ISP? I used to run my own Linux web server, and relied on software for updating the IP address whenever my ISP changed it (eg, whenever I restarted my web server). Thanks, Bjoernke... and I'll

Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-18 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I don't know if this applies to your user case, but Chatrev also runs from my LAN. Now you might think "but it's accessible via the internet?". That is because for a network, a server is anything that accepts connections. I have set my router to forward queries on port 8008 to my iBook (a previo

Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-18 Thread Jim Ault
On Jan 18, 2010, at 4:53 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: Well, I give up for now. Rev CGI scripts don't work easily with sockets, and my on-rev web account won't or can't run stacks such as the Rev chat-server one Bill suggested. So, I can't see a way of my stacks communicating with each other over

Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-18 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Well, I give up for now. Rev CGI scripts don't work easily with sockets, and my on-rev web account won't or can't run stacks such as the Rev chat-server one Bill suggested. So, I can't see a way of my stacks communicating with each other over the web. Instead, it's back to relying on my LAN. I'l

Re: standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-17 Thread Bill Vlahos
Nicolas, Check out the chat server sample stack. It shows how to create a server and send information to and from clients. Bill Vlahos On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: > Where in the Rev documentation (or sample stacks?) should I be looking to > learn how to do the following?

standalones interacting over the web

2010-01-17 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Where in the Rev documentation (or sample stacks?) should I be looking to learn how to do the following? Given 6 identical standalones running of 6 computers all internet connected, I want an event X triggered on any one of those computers to be immediately relayed to the other 5 computers. An ex