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Re: GUI LUGNET streaming news client in Java (Was: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page))
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Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:14:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Dan Boger wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > > Was the cold response the result of my presentation, or did the app just bite?
> > sorry, man, can't try it out - it requires java, which mozilla does not support
> > yet.
> 
> Good point.  I wasn't clear enough.
> 
> This does not require any browser support of Java.  Instead, it's a Java
> application which periodically *launches* Netscape (could be any browser,
> regardless of Java support).

heh, that occured to me...  while I dislike java, I'll give it a shot :)

> > Heh, it'd be cool if we agreed on APIs, since then my client could connect to
> > your server, and vice versa.... no?
> 
> I've only been doing pure client stuff so far.  I've been holding off of the
> middle-tier API until someone could come to a consensus on what form it should
> take.
> 
> What kind of middle-layer solution do you have in mind?  Some ideas I've had:
> 
> o  Mirror the avid.cgi API.  An endpoint client could talk to lugnet.com or a
> middle layer with impunity.  Additionally, middle layers can talk to other
> middle layers, kind of like chaining HTTP proxies.  Benefits could include
> message caching and pre-endpoint message filtering.  Drawback:  middle-layer
> servers need to implement at least a subset of HTTP.  (I like this solution
> the most.)

yes, but in that case, you increase the delay from the time the message is
posted, and the time the client displays it...  it'll be 2-10 minutes, assuming
the 1/5 min delay that Todd's original script used...

> o  Client opens an socket to the middle tier, and keeps it open.  Thinking of
> something like a one-way telnet session.  Messages are sent until the socket
> is closed.  Benefit: telnet becomes a client.  Drawback:  probably
> difficult-if-not-impossible across a firewall.

nod, that would be faster, and you could open it on any port, practicly...  of
course, if your firewall only allows port 80 through, you'll have to run the
middle-tier as root, or use a port-proxy...

> From my end, either way is equally viable based upon what code I have already
> written.

and I could work with either way, just becuase I do intend to start from
scratch...  :)

Dan



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  Re: GUI LUGNET streaming news client in Java (Was: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page))
 
(...) Good point. I wasn't clear enough. This does not require any browser support of Java. Instead, it's a Java application which periodically *launches* Netscape (could be any browser, regardless of Java support). (...) This, essentially, is what (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)  

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