WebClient-Monticello
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I wrote a proof-of-concept Monticello server implementation called MCWebServer, using WebServer from Andreas Raab's WebClient package. I think this is a nice example of how to use WebServer for something useful and real. It also documents the MC HTTP client/server protocol with working code. It is available from http://www.squeaksource.com/ADayAtTheBeach as WebClient-Monticello.x.n.mcz. Load the code using Gofer (the code was written in Pharo but should be portable) (alternatively use Installer or do it manually): Gofer new squeaksource: 'WebClient'; package: 'WebClient-Core'; load. Gofer new squeaksource: 'ADayAtTheBeach'; package: 'WebClient-Monticello'; load. Setting up your own minimal MC source code repository is now very easy: (MCWebServer reset default) directory: (FileDirectory on: '/tmp/monticello/'); addUser: 'john' withPassword: 'secret'; listenOn: 8800. Make sure the specified directory exists. Choose a server port that is unused. Access with the following specification: MCHttpRepository location: '<a href="http://localhost:8800'">http://localhost:8800' user: 'john' password: 'secret'. Enjoy, Sven -- Sven Van Caekenberghe - http://homepage.mac.com/svc Beta Nine - software engineering - http://www.beta9.be |
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Hi:
Thanks by share. I will take a look as soon as I can. In the maintime want to ask if you have extended/implemented on WebClient the possibility of make post's with multipart/form-data (See my mail of yesterday with subject: "Using WebClient"). Cheers. Germán. 2010/6/22 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[hidden email]>: > Hi, > > I wrote a proof-of-concept Monticello server implementation called MCWebServer, using WebServer from Andreas Raab's WebClient package. I think this is a nice example of how to use WebServer for something useful and real. It also documents the MC HTTP client/server protocol with working code. It is available from http://www.squeaksource.com/ADayAtTheBeach as WebClient-Monticello.x.n.mcz. > > Load the code using Gofer (the code was written in Pharo but should be portable) (alternatively use Installer or do it manually): > > Gofer new squeaksource: 'WebClient'; package: 'WebClient-Core'; load. > Gofer new squeaksource: 'ADayAtTheBeach'; package: 'WebClient-Monticello'; load. > > Setting up your own minimal MC source code repository is now very easy: > > (MCWebServer reset default) > directory: (FileDirectory on: '/tmp/monticello/'); > addUser: 'john' withPassword: 'secret'; > listenOn: 8800. > > Make sure the specified directory exists. Choose a server port that is unused. > > Access with the following specification: > > MCHttpRepository > location: '<a href="http://localhost:8800'">http://localhost:8800' > user: 'john' > password: 'secret'. > > Enjoy, > > Sven > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe - http://homepage.mac.com/svc > Beta Nine - software engineering - http://www.beta9.be > > > > |
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Hi Germán,
I never wrote code to do the client side of a multipart/form-data encoded post, but I did do the server part (in Common Lisp), although it was a long time ago. Furthermore I remember that it was a bit of a mess ;-) But looking at the Drakma Common Lisp web client documentation ( http://www.weitz.de/drakma/#form-data ) it seems as if they are doing what you are looking for, which would essentially be a mix between your code and Andreas' form post code: i.e. combine parameters with files in one post using another encoding. Still, you will always have to known upfront which fields are expected. Maybe if I have some time I will look into it, but I can't promise anything. Sven On 23 Jun 2010, at 01:24, Germán Arduino wrote: > Hi: > > Thanks by share. I will take a look as soon as I can. > > In the maintime want to ask if you have extended/implemented on > WebClient the possibility of make post's with multipart/form-data (See > my mail of yesterday with subject: "Using WebClient"). > > Cheers. > Germán. > > > 2010/6/22 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[hidden email]>: >> Hi, >> >> I wrote a proof-of-concept Monticello server implementation called MCWebServer, using WebServer from Andreas Raab's WebClient package. I think this is a nice example of how to use WebServer for something useful and real. It also documents the MC HTTP client/server protocol with working code. It is available from http://www.squeaksource.com/ADayAtTheBeach as WebClient-Monticello.x.n.mcz. >> >> Load the code using Gofer (the code was written in Pharo but should be portable) (alternatively use Installer or do it manually): >> >> Gofer new squeaksource: 'WebClient'; package: 'WebClient-Core'; load. >> Gofer new squeaksource: 'ADayAtTheBeach'; package: 'WebClient-Monticello'; load. >> >> Setting up your own minimal MC source code repository is now very easy: >> >> (MCWebServer reset default) >> directory: (FileDirectory on: '/tmp/monticello/'); >> addUser: 'john' withPassword: 'secret'; >> listenOn: 8800. >> >> Make sure the specified directory exists. Choose a server port that is unused. >> >> Access with the following specification: >> >> MCHttpRepository >> location: '<a href="http://localhost:8800'">http://localhost:8800' >> user: 'john' >> password: 'secret'. >> >> Enjoy, >> >> Sven >> >> -- >> Sven Van Caekenberghe - http://homepage.mac.com/svc >> Beta Nine - software engineering - http://www.beta9.be >> >> >> >> > |
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I like this a lot and will be combing over it for a while.
I did find in your instructions that: directory: (FileDirectory on: '/tmp/monticello')
presented some problems for me. Putting a folder called "monticello" in the Squeak folder, ensuring anybody could write/read to it, and then using: directory: (FileDirectory default directoryNamed: 'monticello')
worked as expected. I don't think MCWebServer could find the directory due to an incomplete path. I have a feeling that you expected the relative path to be assisted by the fuller path that gets put into the directory instvar during initialization. But I don't think the example instructions you've provided do that. They clobber whatever's in the directory instvar and leave it with only a relative path. That seems to be why I was getting errors.
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Chris,
On 23 Jun 2010, at 18:47, Chris Cunnington wrote: > I like this a lot and will be combing over it for a while. > > I did find in your instructions that: > > directory: (FileDirectory on: '/tmp/monticello') > > presented some problems for me. Putting a folder called "monticello" in the Squeak folder, ensuring anybody could write/read to it, > and then using: > > directory: (FileDirectory default directoryNamed: 'monticello') > > worked as expected. > > I don't think MCWebServer could find the directory due to an incomplete path. I have a feeling that you expected the relative path to be assisted by the fuller path that gets put into the directory instvar during initialization. But I don't think the example instructions you've provided do that. They clobber whatever's in the directory instvar and leave it with only a relative path. That seems to be why I was getting errors. > > Thanks for sharing this. > > Chris Thanks for testing! It did work on my system (Mac OS X, Pharo 1.1), but maybe I introduced something non-portable here. Now that I think of it, does a slash separated path work on all platforms ? Probably not. Maybe the only portable way to do it is compose FileDirectory objects like you did. Sven |
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Hi Sven:
2010/6/23 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[hidden email]>: > Hi Germán, > > I never wrote code to do the client side of a multipart/form-data encoded post, but I did do the server part (in Common Lisp), although it was a long time ago. Furthermore I remember that it was a bit of a mess ;-) > Same here :) > But looking at the Drakma Common Lisp web client documentation ( http://www.weitz.de/drakma/#form-data ) it seems as if they are doing what you are looking for, which would essentially be a mix between your code and Andreas' form post code: i.e. combine parameters with files in one post using another encoding. > > Still, you will always have to known upfront which fields are expected. Exactly, I was thinking if could find some way of read the form first, and then ask by the needed fields. And thanks by the link, I'm reading .... Cheers. Germán. > > Maybe if I have some time I will look into it, but I can't promise anything. > > Sven > > > On 23 Jun 2010, at 01:24, Germán Arduino wrote: > >> Hi: >> >> Thanks by share. I will take a look as soon as I can. >> >> In the maintime want to ask if you have extended/implemented on >> WebClient the possibility of make post's with multipart/form-data (See >> my mail of yesterday with subject: "Using WebClient"). >> >> Cheers. >> Germán. >> >> >> 2010/6/22 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[hidden email]>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wrote a proof-of-concept Monticello server implementation called MCWebServer, using WebServer from Andreas Raab's WebClient package. I think this is a nice example of how to use WebServer for something useful and real. It also documents the MC HTTP client/server protocol with working code. It is available from http://www.squeaksource.com/ADayAtTheBeach as WebClient-Monticello.x.n.mcz. >>> >>> Load the code using Gofer (the code was written in Pharo but should be portable) (alternatively use Installer or do it manually): >>> >>> Gofer new squeaksource: 'WebClient'; package: 'WebClient-Core'; load. >>> Gofer new squeaksource: 'ADayAtTheBeach'; package: 'WebClient-Monticello'; load. >>> >>> Setting up your own minimal MC source code repository is now very easy: >>> >>> (MCWebServer reset default) >>> directory: (FileDirectory on: '/tmp/monticello/'); >>> addUser: 'john' withPassword: 'secret'; >>> listenOn: 8800. >>> >>> Make sure the specified directory exists. Choose a server port that is unused. >>> >>> Access with the following specification: >>> >>> MCHttpRepository >>> location: '<a href="http://localhost:8800'">http://localhost:8800' >>> user: 'john' >>> password: 'secret'. >>> >>> Enjoy, >>> >>> Sven >>> >>> -- >>> Sven Van Caekenberghe - http://homepage.mac.com/svc >>> Beta Nine - software engineering - http://www.beta9.be >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- ================================================= Germán S. Arduino <gsa @ arsol.net> Twitter: garduino Arduino Software & Web Hosting http://www.arduinosoftware.com PasswordsPro http://www.passwordspro.com ================================================= |
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Hi Sven -
Thanks for MCWebServer - I think that this is a *great* example for the use of WebServer that's both educational and practically useful. Also, thanks for your comments and suggestions - all of these are very welcome. Cheers, - Andreas On 6/22/2010 2:54 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a proof-of-concept Monticello server implementation called MCWebServer, using WebServer from Andreas Raab's WebClient package. I think this is a nice example of how to use WebServer for something useful and real. It also documents the MC HTTP client/server protocol with working code. It is available from http://www.squeaksource.com/ADayAtTheBeach as WebClient-Monticello.x.n.mcz. > > Load the code using Gofer (the code was written in Pharo but should be portable) (alternatively use Installer or do it manually): > > Gofer new squeaksource: 'WebClient'; package: 'WebClient-Core'; load. > Gofer new squeaksource: 'ADayAtTheBeach'; package: 'WebClient-Monticello'; load. > > Setting up your own minimal MC source code repository is now very easy: > > (MCWebServer reset default) > directory: (FileDirectory on: '/tmp/monticello/'); > addUser: 'john' withPassword: 'secret'; > listenOn: 8800. > > Make sure the specified directory exists. Choose a server port that is unused. > > Access with the following specification: > > MCHttpRepository > location: '<a href="http://localhost:8800'">http://localhost:8800' > user: 'john' > password: 'secret'. > > Enjoy, > > Sven > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe - http://homepage.mac.com/svc > Beta Nine - software engineering - http://www.beta9.be > > > > |
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
> Hi, > > I wrote a proof-of-concept Monticello server implementation called MCWebServer, using WebServer from Andreas Raab's WebClient package. I think this is a nice example of how to use WebServer for something useful and real. It also documents the MC HTTP client/server protocol with working code. It is available from http://www.squeaksource.com/ADayAtTheBeach as WebClient-Monticello.x.n.mcz. > > Load the code using Gofer (the code was written in Pharo but should be portable) (alternatively use Installer or do it manually): > > Gofer new squeaksource: 'WebClient'; package: 'WebClient-Core'; load. > Gofer new squeaksource: 'ADayAtTheBeach'; package: 'WebClient-Monticello'; load. > > Setting up your own minimal MC source code repository is now very easy: > > (MCWebServer reset default) > directory: (FileDirectory on: '/tmp/monticello/'); > addUser: 'john' withPassword: 'secret'; > listenOn: 8800. > > Make sure the specified directory exists. Choose a server port that is unused. > > Access with the following specification: > > MCHttpRepository > location: '<a href="http://localhost:8800'">http://localhost:8800' > user: 'john' > password: 'secret'. Thanks, this seems to be a nice and simple replacement of SqueakSource for small projects. Levente > > Enjoy, > > Sven > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe - http://homepage.mac.com/svc > Beta Nine - software engineering - http://www.beta9.be > > > > |
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