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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:31:16 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] web server
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Writing the core of a blog engine in three lines of rc is hard to
>>> beat, plus you get the benefit of being able to manipulate and manage
>>> all your data using the tools any self respecting Unix user loves.
>>>
>>> uriel
>>
>> well, I haven't thought about it deeply yet, but what I guess could be
>> a problem with your approach is that many features would have to be
>> somehow implemented first so that it all be useable. I mean e.g. ajax
>> style of page content refresh, session management, perhaps POST method
>> too.
>
> Whatever AJAX and sessions are good web development practices is
> questionable, but in any case werc does provides you with the tools to
> implement such things if that is what you really want.
>
> Werc handles POST just fine, and actually maht just implemented
> multiple file upload, which I never bothered to do because I never had
> use for it and thought it would be too hard, apparently didn't take
> him more than an afternoon to do it.
>
> uriel

So, how hard is it to get werc running on real Plan 9? The readme was
for Plan 9 Ports last time I checked.


John