Some might know my old project revHTTPd which is a web server made in revolution. Some might even notice a project called btnHTTPd which is a self contained web server in a button. Well, I just made a huge effort this month to deliver you all the next generation of HTTPd interfaces. My english is a little bad and there are no many news that I am afraid I deliver them in a fuzzy way. Let's go slowly now.
First the server is now a self contained button, you might add it to any project of yours by placing it on your stack. You configure it by it's custom properties and command it by sending messages to it.
The focus on this project is not to serve web pages but to connect Revolution to a Browser interface. Althought the server can serve local files, It's true marvels are what it can do to serve stacks as pages.
First we've got a cool URL mapping scheme that is like this:
/Stack ---> Send default_html to the stack.
/Stack/Message ---> Send message to the Stack
/Stack/Card/Message ---> Send message to card of stack.
/Stack/Card/Button/Message ---> Send message to button of card of stack (this is like a design decision, messages default to button if no object type is present)
/Stack/Card/ObjectType/ObjectName/Msg ---> Send msg to obj of card of stack like: /MainStack/1/field/email/clearText (would send "clearText" to field email)
This way I can for example access a URL a button like this http://home.soapdog.org:8081/quotes/2/button/refreshquotes/mouseUp, this would trigger the mouseUp of button adduote on card 2 of stack quotes. Pretty easy! Enought for URLs.
The server is now supporting the POST method and GET method, it will look for POST Data and look inside document request URL for GET data... it will map HTML/URL Field names to Revolution Field names, so if I access http://home.soapdog.org:8081/about?card=1 it will look for stack "about" and for a text field named card in it, if it find one it will fill it with "1", Thats automatic. It fills the fields before sending the message (so that you can proccess them). This way you can write whole web apps just by using our familiar ways of stacks, cards, fields and messages.
We created a Revolution Field to Web Engine called Inform. Inform can take any card of any stack and will parse it taking all fields and making a nice HTML form of it. It will fill the form with the currrent fields values, and since the server do the map back automatically, you can focus on the "processPost" message that is sent to your stack for the rest is taken care.
For you all to wonder, with this framework I was able to create a Blog engine in 10 lines, was able to create a Fotolog engine in also 10 lines. I created a Instant Message in some 30 lines.
I want to stress test and demo this new server before releasing it this week, so if you're interested in it or plain curious, point you browser to http://home.soapdog.org:8081
I am leaving this server running here, fiddle with it leave feedback, see the runtime screenshots... inspect it the way you can, it's a nice job. Mind that my home connection is not the best one and the server is not failsafe yet... but you might like it...
Cheers
Andre Garzia 2003 imac2 ibook p100 e uma torradeira.... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
