Hello. Over the weekend Codrin Grajdeanu and I have implemented: gwebd: A web server implemented on glib. It can be used to add a web server to an application that uses a glib main loop, defining handlers for specific URLs. It's currently ~700 lines of code. http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/gwebd gtwekbd: A web server on top of gwebd meant to expose information about the widgets of a given application over HTTP and to let one use HTML forms to deliver signals to them. It's currently ~500 lines of code. We added a script that uses LD_PRELOAD to run an existing GTK application with an embedded web server without the need to recompile it. http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/gtkwebd Both are released under GPLv3. Our vision is to make it easy for a GTK user that wants to automate something to (1) start playing with a browser to see how to do what he wants and then (2) just implement that in whatever language he wants to (including shell scripts that use wget or similar). We think this may have the advantage over other alternatives (such as DBUS or embedded extensibility languages) of being very simple and not requiring the user to learn any new technologies (just HTTP and, well, some basic familiarity with the semantics of the GTK signals/widget types, though that should be somewhat obvious from the HTML interface). Note that the overhead in terms of both memory and performance of having a web server included in *every* process that runs a GTK application would be negligible. In our vision, gtkwebd would be automatically included in GTK+ and GTK+ apps would get an embedded web server by default (though some things that would be required are still missing, such as a user-wide registry of <application-name, process, port> tuples and an authorization model). Our code is currently a prototype and there are things we haven't got around to implementing yet. Currently you have to use it carefully or you may crash your process, we don't have exahustive tests, and we don't have an authorization model, but we expect to change that. Thoughts? Alejo. http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/ _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
