a subtlety on this method is to have the NMEA generator listen on a socket (as a webservice) and have it service requests from the webserver on the box that generated the SVG. This way, your webserver acts as a forwarding (and filtering) proxy and security is maintained.
Ronan On Tuesday 12 April 2005 09:57, J�r�me Tricand de la Goutte wrote: > Hi Dimitrios, > > Your application seems very interesting. However, i'm sorry but your > can't access your data easily from JS. It would be a security hole. > Don't forget we are working in Internet wolrd. > But (yes there is always a but) you can access data that are stored on > the server using getURL and ParseXML JS functions. > So I would advice to : > - put a web server on your machine. > - store your SVG in your WWW repertory > - connect to your server using a web browser and get your SVG > - your SVG will ask data from your server using JS > - use serverside script to get data from TCP, UDP or a seria port and to > send them to your SVG > - your SVG will parse your data using JS and show them on screen. > > Hope it helps > > J�r�me > > Dimitrios Zachariadis a �crit : > >gpsfeed+ is a free software utility that produces NMEA 0183 output to > >TCP/IP, UDP and serial ports. I've written it to test gps > >applications. In case someone is interested, gpsfeed+ is at: > > > >http://users.hol.gr/~dzach/gpsfeed/index.html > > > >My question is how to read gps data coming in from a TCP, UDP or a serial > >port from inside an svg javascript routine on the same machine. Has > >anyone delt with this before? > > > >Thank you > > > > > > > > > > > >----- > >To unsubscribe send a message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- > >visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > > membership" ---- > >Yahoo! Groups Links -- "If just one piece of mail gets lost, well, they'll just think they forgot to send it. But if *two* pieces of mail get lost, hell, they'll just think the other guy hasn't gotten around to answering his mail. And if *fifty* pieces of mail get lost, can you imagine it, if *fifty* pieces of mail get lost, why they'll think someone *else* is broken! And if 1Gb of mail gets lost, they'll just *know* that Arpa is down and think it's a conspiracy to keep them from their God given right to receive Net Mail ..." -- Leith (Casey) Leedom --> contact me: ronan at roasp dot com ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
