Not ontopic But best Ajax Webshell i ever used is AjaxTerm
It is very stable and works very well. GIT: http://git.kirya.net/?p=ajaxterm.git Direct : http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/*ajaxterm*/ On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Yarko Tymciurak < [email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 19, 1:48 pm, David Marko <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just decided today to explore the 'shell' function the web2py > > browser interface offers. But I found it very unstable. This works > > very fine until I want to get back to my app. It locks database access > > that means entire web2py server is locked and must be killed. I know > > the shell interface warns about this and lead me to click on > > 'unlock ...' links, but it doesnt help. I have tried several times > > with the same 'lock' end. My app is connected to PostgreSQL, I run > > latest web2py trunk version on WinXP. The 'shell console' is very > > powerful thing but useless when it causes server freeze. But maybe I > > miss something significant. Can anyone share his experience or maybe > > some hint? > > hint is: "...it seemed like a good idea at the > time...." (sqldesigner integration also falls in this bucket, I > think) > > The command line shell is more powerful, and less problems --- and > you can run it _while_ you are > running the "other" server (which is, for example, how I would do > custom reports from PyCon registration site - > write a little one-shot function, and run it from a command line shell > for someone, while the registration site > was running on apache): > > python web2py.py -S myapp -M > > I have never found a situation where I couldn't get some ssh > connection to my server to make this happen (putty, straight ssh, or > otherwise), so the web shell was a curiousity... nice for demos, but > not distinctly useful enough to bother with. > > That would be my best hint... > > - Yarko > > - Yarko > > > > David

