[Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

[Dan Hanks]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Shane Hathaway wrote:

> Thomas Haws wrote:
>> This is very intriguing.  Can you point to an example we might install
>> and try?
>
> I hope someone else knows of an example.  Conceptually, it's simple, and
> I can see the solution from start to finish.  But I'm surprised it
> hasn't been done very often.  Maybe we need a proof of concept.

There's a Perl module called Net::Server 
(http://search.cpan.org/~rhandom/Net-Server-0.93/lib/Net/Server.pm) that 
could be used to easily implment a simple HTTP server for use with 
something like this. Another such module would be HTTP::Daemon 
(http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.805/lib/HTTP/Daemon.pm).

The installer could be smart enough to ask if this is a desktop/standalone 
install (and use the Perl module or whatever other lightweight httpd is 
included with the package) or a server install (in which case it would use 
the Apache or whatever is running on the server.

-- Dan