| 1 | Desktop Exchange Service (DXS) |
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| 2 | ============================== |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | This is the Hotstuff implementation of some DXS features |
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| 5 | using Perl as a programming language, with the following modules: |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | * Getopt::Long (to parse command line options) |
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| 8 | * XML::DOM (to read in the GHNS .meta file) |
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| 9 | * MIME::Base64 (to encode GHNS payload and preview data) |
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| 10 | * SOAP::Lite (to communicate with the webservice) |
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| 11 | * Term::Shell (to provide an interactive shell) |
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| 12 | * Data::Dumper (to debug complex data structures) |
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| 13 | * LWP::Simple (to fetch external downloads) |
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| 14 | * DBI (to access the backend database) |
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| 15 | * (optional: Crypt::SSLeay to access HTTPS URLs) |
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| 16 | * (optional: Term::Readline to get a nicer shell) |
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| 17 | |
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| 18 | Make sure all these modules are installed. |
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| 19 | Then, install the DXS files themselves: |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | * Server: copy DXS.pm and hotstuff-dxs to /usr/lib/cgi-bin |
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| 22 | * Client: invoke dxsclient |
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| 24 | A permanent installation of the webservice is available at |
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| 25 | http://new.kstuff.org/cgi-bin/hotstuff-dxs. This can be used with |
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| 26 | the --webservice argument so you don't have to install a |
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| 27 | web server and do the CGI configuration. |
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| 29 | Note that the DXS is not yet finished. The standard is currently |
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| 30 | being formulated at http://ghns.freedesktop.org/. Other implementations |
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| 31 | might be created, and the data format might change. |
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| 33 | Josef Spillner |
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| 34 | <josef@kstuff.org> |
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