• BCS (25/25) Aug 01 2006 I have made a cgi app that allows read access to nntp. It comes in two
• BCS (8/8) Aug 04 2006 I have updated my nntpcgi.

BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:

I have made a cgi app that allows read access to nntp. It comes in two 
flavors.

The first is just a single program that loads whatever you want each 
time you ask for it. (It is vary slow)

The second comes in two parts. One part that does the loading and one 
part that does the printing. The loading part just runs all the time and 
cashes what you ask for (or at least the 100 newest posts). The printing 
part connects to the reading part each time it starts up and pulls data 
from it.

The two versions share >%90 of there (hand written) code. This is 
accomplished by way of <shameless_plug> my NetIDL code generator. 
</shameless_plug>

the cgi sources can be found here

http://www.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/nntpcgi_0_1.zip

It's still a bit rough around the edges, but it works just fine. it's a 
bit spartan as far as comments go but I plan to fix that (sooner if 
people say they are using it) and a few other things.

As it stands you will need to adjust things a bit to get anything but 
digitalmars.D.learn (just change some constants in "server.d" or 
"local.d"). If you want to run more than one copy (more than one 
newsgroup) you will need to set each one to use a different port for 
accessing the "reader" process (this is set in "server.d" and "cgi.d").


If you want to do a total rebuild, you will need NetIDL which can be 
found here.

http://www.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/netidl_0_12_sdk.zip

BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:

I have updated my nntpcgi.

It will now nicely work hosting several different newsgroups on the same 
server. also the readme has a bit more stuff in it like a howto section.

the cgi sources of the new version can be found here

http://www.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/nntpcgi_0_2_sdk.zip

If you want to do a total rebuild, you will need NetIDL which can be
found here.

http://www.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/netidl_0_12_sdk.zip