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Re: A web-based frontend for the cdebconf



Eddy Petrişor wrote:
On 03/07/06, Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it> wrote:

>>  does anyone has a
>> better candidate than webfs ()?
>
> I think thttpd[1] has also cgi support, you might want to look at
> that, too. It is a little bit bigger, but probably, as an udeb, it can
> be smaller.

Good advice : i installed thttpd (which is said to support CGI) and the
executable file's size is ~70 KB only : ATM i think this is really the
best option.


Glad to be helpful. As a self contained web server is doing a great
job on my router, as seen until now ;-) .

This evening i built a test tarball, similar to those i used to build when developing the GTK frontend, to test the web frontend with thttpd in a real d-i environement.
The results were encouraging, even if a lot of work has to be done yet.
There are many bugs in the code still awaiting to be fixed and major work is needed to support HTTP encoding/decoding and to correctly display non latin languages [1].
Anyway, developining this web frontend is fun.. :)

Attilio

[1] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/web_frontend/web_fe_lang.png



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