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RE: [Openinteract-help] Re: [Templates] Internetlinks in OI

[Chris M. <Chr...@te...>]

Just a note - this concept of putting arbitrary external content in a box in
OI is basically the concept behind plumtree's 'gadgets', which is uber-cool.
If someone is going to be taking this on, making the handler such that
parameters posted to the dynamic URL get passed back to the content
generator remotely (like a gateway) so that you could use external
cgi/servlets/whatever in a box, would be fantastic, and probably take OI to
another level entirely.

Chris McDaniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Winters [mailto:ch...@cw...]
Sent: 10 Oct, 2001 8:58 AM
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Subject: [Openinteract-help] Re: [Templates] Internetlinks in OI


* Tho...@be... (Tho...@be...) [011010
05:29]:
> Hello.
> 
> Is there the possibility to show extern internet-sites in the
> maintable of OI , without losing the boxes , etc. ?

While this question should be on the openinteract-help list [1], it
should be fairly simple to write a handler that uses LWP to fetch the
content of another site and put it in the main content area. We
discussed this briefly on the openinteract-help list recently. [2]

This is actually a pretty cool, while potentially abusive, feature. It
can enable not only other sites to be 'in' the application server, but
also *your* legacy sites.

Thanks,

Chris

[1] ope...@li...

[2]
http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=%5BOpeninteract-help%5D+C
GI+scipts+in+OI&list=8429

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[Openinteract-help] Re: [Templates] Internetlinks in OI

[Dave H. <da...@da...>]

Chris Winters <ch...@cw...> writes:

> While this question should be on the openinteract-help list [1], it
> should be fairly simple to write a handler that uses LWP to fetch the
> content of another site and put it in the main content area. We
> discussed this briefly on the openinteract-help list recently. [2]

I've come across a couple of people recently, independently and for
totally different markets developing HTML->XML parsers for scraping
web pages and representing for differenct audience.

Talk about deja vu...


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[Openinteract-help] Re: [Templates] Internetlinks in OI

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

* Tho...@be... (Tho...@be...) [011010 05:29]:
> Hello.
> 
> Is there the possibility to show extern internet-sites in the
> maintable of OI , without losing the boxes , etc. ?

While this question should be on the openinteract-help list [1], it
should be fairly simple to write a handler that uses LWP to fetch the
content of another site and put it in the main content area. We
discussed this briefly on the openinteract-help list recently. [2]

This is actually a pretty cool, while potentially abusive, feature. It
can enable not only other sites to be 'in' the application server, but
also *your* legacy sites.

Thanks,

Chris

[1] ope...@li...

[2] http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=%5BOpeninteract-help%5D+CGI+scipts+in+OI&list=8429

-- 
Chris Winters (ch...@cw...)
Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.