[aprssig] distributed findu possible ?

[Steve Dimse]

Actually, in the old days the APRS IS worked fine in a browser. You  
could do the URL like

http://rotate.aprs.net:10151

When the stream began flowing it was displayed line by line. It does  
not work on the core and most other APRS IS hubs because the ports  
wait for a filter string and/or a validation string before turning on  
the data. Now, you just see the server message as it waits, then gives  
up and closes the connection

# javAPRSSrvr 3.14b04
# javAPRSSrvr 3.14b04 9 Aug 2008 21:33:01 GMT CORE-2  
134.173.254.38:10151
# javAPRSSrvr 3.14b04 9 Aug 2008 21:33:21 GMT CORE-2  
134.173.254.38:10151
If you hunt around you might find a port that still dishes up the  
data...

Steve K4HG

On Aug 8, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:

>> Yep, you can send to the server, via POST or GET.  Server-side, the  
>> data
>> arrives in an array of the form variables as name, value pairs.
>
> Yes, I understand HTTP works, but what we would need to do to create a
> browser-only Findu-like system is have the browser connect to the
> APRS-IS. This requires a telnet-like socket. I'm unaware of any way to
> do this from a browser, so I think we may be forced to continue using
> stand-alone APRS applications, unless we decide to build a p2p network
> independent of the APRS-IS.
>
> So to clarify, when I said AJAX, I meant
> Asynchronous-Javascript-And-Telnet. I understand where the confusion
> could arise--if only the APRS-IS was XML over HTTP :)
>
> Tom KD7LXL
>
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