Announce: new HTTP interface

[Bill Eldridge]

Okay, I modified this to get the commands actually
working, so it'll start a program stream running,
browse, help, etc. Right now it spits out lots of
variable settings that wouldn't be desired in
a production version.

I had also mistakenly copied up the original telnet.cpp
yesterday, and not my version.



Bill Eldridge wrote:
> 
> Due to overwhelming demand and a torrent
> of responses, I've now added cookie handling
> to my Web interface in addition to GET and POST
> handling. This helps, because you don't have
> to re-enter your user/password info once the
> cookie is set. (okay, it's clear text, not
> secure and doesn't remember expiration date
> even though it "handles" it). It also makes
> it easy to have a Web form you click with
> something like:
> 
> <form method=POST action="http://localhost:9997/forminput>
> <p>User: <input type=text name=user>
> <p>Password: <input type=text name=password>
> <p> Name: <input type=text name=name>
> <p> Command: <input type=text name=command>
> <p> <input type=submit>
> </form>
> 
> to access the admin stuff.
> 
> The only command I've tested with so
> far is "browse". Shouldn't be a problem
> to augment to handle the rest of the
> vls commands.
> 
> Two versions are available, one is
> http.cpp/.h which requires all the
> references to telnet/Telnet/TELNET in
> admin.cpp/.h be copied to http/Http/HTTP,
> and browser.cpp/.h, Makefile & vls.cfg
> slightly edited.
> 
> The second is pretty much a drop-in for
> the current telnet.cpp, with only a change
> to browser.cpp/.h.
> 
> http://techweb.rfa.org/staff/bill/
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
> 
> P.S. I'm sure the code will be considered
> a bit ugly, but it also throws all the
> various variables into maps, so you can
> retrieve things like:
> 
>     if (envpath["command"] == "browse")....
> 



-- 
Bill Eldridge
Radio Free Asia
bill at rfa.org



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