Re: [Muine] [PATCH] InfoServer

[Sam Stephenson <sstephenson gmail com>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:14:30 -0700, Brian Kerrick Nickel
<kerrick cox net> wrote:
> > It's usability is demonstrated here: http://localhost:8080/music/
> 
> That was stupid of me: http://68.99.219.101:8080/music/

That's very cool! Nice work.

> > I think muine could stand to use a combination of the two, a keep-alive
> > notification server, and a request server, preferably packaged on the
> > same port. Ideally this would be able to replace MessageConnection.

My primary motivation for InfoServer was opening up Muine to the world
of annoying little "I'm currently listening to..." scripts and images,
which is why it has a query model and not a notification model.  I
think your idea and mine seem similar at the surface, but are really
fundamentally quite different and serve different purposes.

> > It may be better to use Unix sockets in place of Tcp

TCP sockets are more easily accessible from various scripting
languages, making InfoServer more useful.

> > either that or an IP whitelist/blacklist.

I'm not convinced this is necessary, especially since the "enable"
setting defaults to false and there is no real GUI to configure it.
Rules for allowing and denying hosts could quickly clutter (and bloat)
up the source, and it seems to me that anyone with a use for
InfoServer likely knows how to configure a firewall to block incoming
connections on a specified port.

I think an "allow connections from localhost only" setting might be
OK, though. Thoughts?

> - Brian

- Sam