Re: [9fans] dbfs and web framework for plan 9 (was: web-based plan 9?)

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:

Hi,

> Well, Plan 9 has web forums, see http://lsub.org/magic/group as an example
> It uses a directory per web group, with a file per article (and replies to it).
> Several skeleton html files are used and a DYNAMIC tag is replaced with
> contents using a C program.

Yeah, simple, but effective :)
With modern browsers you could even move this logic into the client:
It just reads the files (using HTTP as fs) and builds up everything
else on its own, using javascript.

> Also, because we use the real FS to keep the data, we don't need a synthetic
> file system program to implement any interface whatsoever (unless you count the
> web as such thing).

But a synthetic filesystem would also be fine for creating everything
on-the-fly. POST requests could be sent through a special file.
The actual http stuff would just be a tiny frontend :)


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