Re: [gentoo-dev] Webbased Portage - WebPortage-0.1 alpha1

[Troy Dack]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 07:03, Benjamin Judas wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I withdrawed from my original idea in using Apache itself as the
> CGI-Platform for WebPortage and implemented a small webserver in Python.
> It simply does nothing as calling index.html in the actual directory and
> handle all traffic.
>
> I did this since:
>
> 1.
> The CGI'fied portage scripts have to run as a privileged user - this can
> be realized by making one little change to CGIHTTPServer.py (included in
> the Python-Distribution)
>
> 2.
> There would be no need to install Apache. WebPortage only needs Python
> which is needed by Portage and thus installed on every Gentoo-System.
>
> If you want to try it, simply decompress the .tar.bz2-File and run the
> server with: python server.py. The server will listen on Port 8001 (see
> source-code of server.py) on localhost.
>
> Remember, there's no authentification at the moment. If you start it
> everybody can access your lokal portage using a simple web-browser.
> Please be careful when trying it.
>
> In this version you can do only two things : searching for packages and
> syncing portage tree. The output of emerge sync still needs to be
> beautified and there is no output until wpsync.py (the CGI-script
> responsible for syncing) is completely done, so it's possible that your
> browser is saying "Transferring data from localhost..." for 10 Minutes
> ;) This will be fixed somewhere in the future.

I started something like this, but life got in the way of me learning
enough python and enough CGI/http to completely finish it.

My initial efforts are at http://sourceforge.net/projects/webportage.

Thoughts for the future include making a mod_python (to run under
apache) version as well as a standalone version.

To overcome your "Transfering data from localhost ..." problem you
should look at chunked encoding, form memory it's part of HTTP/1.1
(rather than just 1.0)

If you have the time to devote to something like this contact me off
list.

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