[Cxtable-devel] The "Other Projects" thing, one more unmentioned...

[Williams, D. <DAV...@ca...>]

And, of course, there needs to be some logic put in place for using this PHP piece on a central server for 'publishing' rather than the traditional FTP way...

What this PHP piece would do is as follows..

RegistryServer
1- create ServSocket
2- Read the URL ("cxtable.sourceforge.net/registry.php?ADD:BillyBob:111.11.11.111:1020")
3- Check to make sure add went OK (response from the registry.php is a tagged message)...
4- Listen for && process connects and broadcasting of who is on to who is on...

The above will have totally eliminated the need for a group to have a 'free web page' of their own w/ FTP access...  And thus eliminated the pure dependency on Peter van der Linden and Steve Lynch's "Linlyn"...


Peers wanting to connect to the BillyBob Registry server

1- create ServSocket (as normally)
2- Read the URL("cxtable.sourceforge.net/registry.php?GET:Billybob")
3- process response for server's IP location and port.
4- proceed as normally.

If a user has a PHP server on their website, great, they can change it to their website.  OTHERWISE, a group wanting to use it under the name "CyberDragonMomma" would only have to have their peers reading for GET:CyberDragonMomma off of the cxtable web page, and the Registry server set to ADD:CyberDragonMomma:{IP}:{PORT}


If you look at the project members on SourceForge (Bret (aka Blancowulfe) is a close friend who occasionally beta-tests...when we can/.... he has a majorly screwed up ISP that firewalls his connection {Juno} and therefore has been more help checking the Peer-Enable piece than the standard connection...   The other person..  Bryan Faseman... he really isn't on the project anymore...  he wrote "registry.php v1.1" for me (and v1.0 as well ;-) )...  He will maintain it if there are broader requirements/uses for it...

But try this... try going to the following links.

http://cxtable.sourceforge.net/registry.php?ADD:BornesRegistry:127.0.0.1:8080

Then, go to the following link:
http://cxtable.sourceforge.net/registry.php?GET:BornesRegistry

THEN, go to the following link:
http://cxtable.sourceforge.net/registry.php?REM:BornesRegistry


(I'm pretty sure REM is for remove...)

Anyway...he did fairly well writing it... (He said "I'm not a PHP Whiz...but I can give it a whack")...  and I think I probably could have written it too, but not any better, and it would have taken me away from the chief and core work on the project...

I just hope he's not upset that I haven't put it to use yet..

~Dave



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