[Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

[William McKeehan]

I'm not talking about making the http server open to anyone; it could limit
itself to 127.0.0.1 for the type of thing I'm talking about.

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William McKeehan
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On Tue, October 9, 2007 3:16 pm, Gerry Creager wrote:
> William McKeehan wrote:
>> On Tue, October 9, 2007 2:46 pm, Brad Douglas wrote:
>>> Are you suggesting that everyone have a working http server on their
>>> local machine?  That is quite an excessive (and generally insecure)
>>> method of accomplishing the given goal, locally.
>>
>> Well, I'm thinking about a limited http server as part of Xastir, not
>> necessarily on port 80 (the default http port). It would be similar to the
>> current Xastir server port. I think we could find code for a simple http
>> engine to incorporate into the Xastir code that is neither excessive nor
>> insecure.
>
> Lots of (real) security professionals will ask serious questions about
> standing up a web server on a port besides 80, 8080 or 8000.  Be
> prepared to have to answer those questions.  Also, I cringe everytime I
> think of the port-scamming APRS-IS is already involved in.  We should
> have written the spec, gone to IANA and gotten a port-list, and
> implemented it.
>
>>> IMO, wxPython is the way to go for GUI development.
>>
>> My suggested approach would let people develop a GUI in multiple
>> environments
>> and provide a standard "API" to facilitate this development.
>
> That works if we're looking at exposing an interface and expecting folks
> to write to it, ala SOAP.  Unfortunately, then, every new SOAP service
> starts looking like a "one-off" and the eventual consolidation of WSDLs
> and SOAP implementations will result in... xml-rpc, which has already
> been around for quite awhile.
>
>>> I highly recommend you look into REST[1] before proceeding.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://www.workflowresearch.com/Publications/PDF/MIZU.JENI.KESW-DSS(2004).pdf
>
> gerry
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