Hello Jim.

16 Sep 03 12:17, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB>   Re: squishy
 JB>   By: Maurice Kinal to Jim Bonds on Tue Sep 16 2003 08:25 am

 >>
 >>  JB> Another option would be setting up with someones Frontend and
 >>  JB> using a program like Sempoint maybe??
 >>
 >> So far from what I've seen it might be possible to set up a qwk
 >> "door" for a browser.  If a ftp client can handle it
then why not a
 >> browser?  Where I see that coming in handy is that it could take
 >> advantage of programs most people already have and would simplify
 >> construction of a suitable interface for qwk or any other offline
 >> format.  We seem to have people with php, perl, etc. skills in this
 >> echo. Maybe we could take advantage of them?  Also it might b
 >> desirable option for a sysop to add to their BBS.  I know if I were
 >> a sysop would raise my eyebrows.

 JB> Well I know on synchronet and a couple others you can access the FTP
 JB> via browser or standard FTP clients, just as any normal FTP site on
 JB> the web. But would be pretty nice to have a full package OLR built to
 JB> run via the web browser. As many Java apps as I have seen out there,
 JB> wonder why there isn't one already...

Actually ... There is a web-server built into the linux source ... it's
buggy, but functional :)  I'm still working on trying to set that up ...


Mike

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