Re: Best Way To Transfer Files From a PC to the IIgs

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Oliver Schmidt wrote:

> In fact there are several reasons why I didn't port the Contiki web
> server to the Apple2:

<SNIP>

Thanks for clarifying all of that, Oliver... 

> I'd like to see a web server on the 8-bit Apple2 as well. My final
> goal would be a simple WebDAV server compatible with the existing
> WebDAV clients for Windows, Linux and MacOS which allow to map WebDAV
> directories into the local filesystem.

Could that be construed to mean you're actually considering such a
project? ;-)

> But that thing doesn't need a
> GUI and therefore it should be build on top of uIP (which is the
> TCP/IP stack used in Contiki), but not on top of the whole Contiki
> beacuse:
> a) Contiki uses a lot of extremly precious memory.
> b) A web server doesn't need a GUI.
> c) The Contiki feature of running several application simultaniously
> doesn't make much sense in a scenario where even one application has a
> hard time to fit into the memeory.

This makes a great deal of sense.

> d) The existing Contiki web server isn't a great starting point it
> lacks the required filesystem access but features the not required
> dynamic content generation.

Though it would be nice to use Applesoft for CGI :)

-s

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