Testers needed: Rugby over http
[1/4] from: koopmans::itr::ing::nl at: 3-Sep-2001 15:59
Hi all,
I just released a test version of Rugby over HTTP.
(Rugby is a SOAP like thing on steroids).
I need some people to test it. Originally I was going to release it as Rugby
PRO, but this won't happen. It will stay free.
You can find it at http://www.rebolforces.com/~erebol/rugby-next.tar.gz
What has changed?
serve now has a refinement /with-http that allows you to specify the port for
http rugby. By default (and in secure-serve) this will be 8002
rexec and sexec now sport the /http refinement. This tunnels all your
request over http. Nice to get past the firewalls and proxies. Rim+ anyone?
Note that you can use url values when using the /with refinement, and you
even have to do that when combined with /http
get-rugby-service now also supports /http . The url is a http url, of course
Functions that are imported using get-rugby-service all have three
refinements:
/oneway /deferred and /http , corrsponding to their rexec and sexec
equivalents.
As the http stuff was lots of work, please let me know what you think, and
what the bugs are. The http proxy should perform really good ( is this
something for you Pekr?)
The hipe server engine has been largely rewritten to support multiple server
ports with different handlers.
I also need Rugby samples for the next release, so if you have any, with some
short documentation, mail them to m.koopmans2 at chello dot nl
The current release of Rugby (and the docs!) can be found at
www.rebolforces.com/~erebol
Thanks and enjoy,
Maarten
[2/4] from: koopmans:itr:ing:nl at: 3-Sep-2001 16:31
Just fixed secure-serve to also accept the with-http refinement.
Please let me know...
--maarten
[3/4] from: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 4-Sep-2001 11:56
Maarten Koopmans wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As the http stuff was lots of work, please let me know what you think, and
> what the bugs are. The http proxy should perform really good ( is this
> something for you Pekr?)
:-) Well, thanks :-) I sometimes request features even if I don't need them
imediatelly - should allow us to solve RIM firewall problem, no? I will look into
rugby deeply in few (2 - 3) weeks, once I proceed with other stuff here ...
Thanks for it though - I can feel great potential in-there ...
-pekr-
[4/4] from: koopmans:itr:ing:nl at: 4-Sep-2001 12:43
RIM firewall problem is only solved if you can have both ingoing and outgoing
http requests. Unfortenately, some firewalls don't allow you to run any
webserver :-(
But... it is straight forward to have RIMmers behave like a reflector if
they are not behind a firewall.
--Maarten