[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio web GUI

[Dotan Cohen]

On 21 February 2010 11:00, Mateusz Viste <mateusz at viste-family.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 20 February 2010 22:54 (CET), Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> While I do agree with your point, I am wary of having a full http
>> server running all the time.
>
> It depends of what you mean by "running all the time" :)
> On my webiste, I advise to use the Grumy HTTP server for that. Grumpy is a server I wrote few months ago, which is called by xinetd (or inetd). This way, you don't have a http server "all the time", but only when there is a http request to handle (xinetd listens on port 80, and start Grumpy when a HTTP request comes, then the Grumpy server process it, and stops, until a new request come to xinetd).
>

I meant from a security point of view, not from a resources point of view.


> Installing Grumpy is no problem on Linux: You need to copy one file to /sbin/ (or /usr/sbin if you like), put grumpy.cfg in /etc/ and configure the superserver (inetd or xinetd) to redirect TCP/80 connexions to Grumpy. That's all!
>

Neat! How fast does that return the request? Subsequent requests?
After how long without a request does the process self-terminate?


> Anyway - if people keep saying to me that installing a http server sounds like a hard thing to do, I might finally code a small http engine into PaWebGui....
>

I didn't say that, but it would be a good feature.


>> Freebasic, really? I haven't looked at Basic since the Commodore 128!
>
> Ah :)
> I started writing BASIC programs several years ago on an ATARI XL :) Then switched to GW-BASIC on my first PC (80286), then came QBASIC, then QuickBASIC and - finally - FreeBASIC. I do tried other languages, but the BASIC syntax was so appealing to me, that I stayed with BASIC-like compilers.
> FreeBASIC is a great modern programming language which allows to write professional programs in a very efficient way. If you're curious, take a look at http://www.freebasic.net/ ;-)
>




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