From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:50:30 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20081123225029.GA19256@nibiru.local> References: <20081123220653.GA25062@nibiru.local> <8ccc8ba40811231426i7e83a9ffled87c4519ab36a57@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40811231426i7e83a9ffled87c4519ab36a57@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [9fans] dbfs and web framework for plan 9 (was: web-based plan 9?) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 512ccdfa-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * Francisco J Ballesteros 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 :) cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: info@metux.de skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------