Have you considered running a faceless Desktop app as a service, having it watch for a socket message, or a file, or even clipboard content to signal it to do something. You could keep an account signed in with an app running -with-or-without a UI.
~Roger On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Malte Brill via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Thanks Dan, but that is not what I am after… > > I have a server side liveCode application, which needs to talk to a couple > of webservices from time to time. While this works nicely on the desktop, > it does not do so on Server, as Server lacks some libURL functionality. > First workaround was to shell out to cURL. This works nicely on Mac and > Linux servers, but forever reason fails under Windows Server, which I need > to support. So the next thought was to call a liveCode executable -ui when > needed, but I do not get a result back there. I will not want to have a > liveCode standalone running 24/7 on a server machine. I guess the easiest > way out is to simply kill off the idea to treat liveCode server as a > replacement for PHP and just bite the bullet and build everything in PHP > instead. Or start an initiative to get libURL ported to server. I already > talked to the guys in Scottland to see if this would be feasible, but it > would cost a bit more than I could afford alone. I might just go with > having the single command implemented I would need for the project > (libURLLastRHHeaders), which then would also lift the requirements for > having to use cURL or any other helper app in my case, but I am not quite > sure if that makes sense… > > Would anybody else like to see libURL feature parity between Desktop and > Server engines and if so be willing to set up a fundraiser with me for this? > > Cheers, > > Malte > > > You can communicate between server and desktop using sockets. Chatrev is > a > > good example of this > > http://www.bjoernke.com/index.irev?target=chatrev > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode