Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Another demo app needed

[<kr...@po...>]

Adam Rifkin writes:
> For example, do_method=whoami was added to pubsub.py ... of course,
> when running pubsub.py I see that [pubsub.py] does not, at present,
> work.  Will need to go through it carefully to determine why.

Last time I tried pubsub.py, it didn't work with any apps because the
apps expect to find the event router at "../../cgi-bin/pubsub.cgi",
while pubsub.py puts it at "/kn", the same place KnowNow's product
does.  I've begun making the necessary changes to the apps and the
Perl server to use "/kn" instead, but haven't finished.

IIRC, pubsub_test.cgi showed that pubsub.py more or less worked,
except for some features without which nearly all apps should still
work (off-host routes, content-transform, content-filter, and event
replay, IIRC), but it doesn't test the all-important JavaScript tunnel
format at all.  It appears to me that the sending code for that format
is in &PubSub::Topic::send, and the receiving code is split between
the JavaScript parser in a browser and _kn_sendCallback in
pubsub_raw.js.  Inspection of the code doesn't suggest that the
formats have changed much --- except for nameU and valueU --- since I
wrote pubsub.py in early 2001.  I'll try it out soon, but not tonight.

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