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Zimwy · May 1, 2006, 01:00 PM

Hi,
I'm currently writing a task manager/to-do list program. I was thinking it would be nice to be able to run the program and use it normally, and then also have it be hosting a web page where new tasks could be entered as well. I know for instance gnump3d starts up its own web server. Does anyone know if there are any easy to use web servers I can drop into my program?

Thanks,
Gabe

Catfish_Man · May 1, 2006, 01:22 PM

apache is included with OSX...

Zimwy · May 1, 2006, 01:54 PM

thanks.

I've used webserver packages in C++ where you can do things like the following:

Code:
void HandlePage(WebserverRequest* req) {
     req->Output("<html>Hi!</html>");
}

void Main() {
     Webserver my_web_server;
     my_web_server.register("/test", /* port */ 5900, HandlePage);
}

where when you go to localhost:5900/test it will show you "hi!"

I was hoping for something like that.

Thinine · May 1, 2006, 02:23 PM

If you really want to, you can look into Objective-C++ and see about integrating those packages into an Objective-C program.

Chuckit · May 1, 2006, 02:25 PM

I'm not aware of anything like that in Obj-C. You could incorporate a server package written in another language, though.

Zimwy · May 1, 2006, 03:24 PM

Does anyone know what gnump3d uses? I tried looking at their online cvs repository but couldn't find the source in there.

Gabe

Chuckit · 03:58 PM

Glancing at the site, it looks like gnump3d is itself a server. It looks like Perl, Python and Ruby (included with OS X by default) all include rudimentary HTTP server classes that you could easily bend to your needs if you want one of those. The only one I'm really familiar with is Ruby's WEBrick, but I'm sure they're all similar.