Be ye opened.
Install NodeJS first, then check out this repository. Within this repo, either install OpenSSL and run
./certs.sh
or create your SSL certificates manually. You’ll need a directory called
./certs
and a key PEM in
./certs/ephphatha.key
and a certificate PEM in
.certs/ephphatha.cert
Then, all you need to do is run
node serve.js
and point your browser at https://localhost:15214/ and calm your browser’s complaints about the self-signed certificate. From there, everything should be discoverable by following hyperlinks. (well, not really, but some day maybe)
Apologies to anyone trying to read this. I use org-mode wrong, and I’m not going to change soon.
This documentation is way out of date. Sorry.
Okay, this documentation is no good. So here’s how you use what I have up there right now:
there are also ways to specify the port, but I haven’t written of that here
the command line will tell you the password once it’s set it; you can change the password with the setPassword method on the server object
I haven’t yet put a link to that on the admin panel yet
documentation on how to do this may be forthcoming (ask me a question, and I might update this doc with the answer)
this is woefully underdocumented; my next plan is to use the system to replace itself with something more self-documenting (check back soon)
I probably need to state my goals in here and revisit them every time I get something done, especially since progress on some of these goals tends to require action to restore the invariants I want from the other goals.
Goal: everything has a URL
Goal: state is reproducible
Goal: federation
Goal: client-only also works when servers are unreachable
I’m tempted to add a “get” method which equals “read”. I’m tempted to add a “curry” method or something.
It’s been too long since I’ve used this, so I need some documentation. That’s convenient, since you need some documentation too!
serve.js provides the first hint at how to use a Server from server.js . first, create a var server = new Server(); Now is a good time to add some routes. Then, pass the port to server.setPort(port); Now is an okay time to add some routes. Next, server.init(http, continuation) where http is something that acts like Node’s http library’s createServer function and continuation gets called with no parameters. That creates a boring server. We need to add routes.
This documentation is out of date.
The Server maintains a list of route functions as mutable state. A var server = new Server() has server.serve(q,s) which calls this.route(q, fn) where fn(r) tries to call r(q, s) or yells at you. It has a server.route(q, success, failure, throwp) which tries to pass the first route to the success callback. The first route is the result of the first function in server.routes that returns a function when passed the request q, or else (if none do) the default route server.defaultRoute if it is a function, or a permanent default route.
All this means that if you want to append subordinate functionality to a server, you should push a function r onto server.routes such that r(q) returns a responding function s iff q belongs to the domain of s and s(q, response) responds like a typical Node HTTP server would. And if you want to patch dominant functionality to a server, (that is, override existing functionality, casting a shadow) then you should server.routes.unshift such a routing function instead.
let’s do the simplest thing we can: let the admin eval strings first, we’ll need to store the strings (for convenience) we don’t have to, but it’ll be nicer this way
anonymous can append a string to the list
read write execute delete
GET the form to submit a new string POST to add the string to the end of the list
access the append form
admin secure-only cookie session token (not password) do not allow insecure admin access enable that later
GET read DELETE POST exec persist
/ index /index index /index.html index /append GET form /append POST append /admin/index admin index /admin/ admin index /admin/index.html admin index /admin/list/ GET listing /admin/$num GET read $num-th element /admin/$num DELETE remove $num-nth element, moving others down? not implementing this time around since I can't use it /admin/$num/del POST same as /admin/$num DELETE because https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10671 is RESOLVED WONTFIX /admin/$num/delete POST same as /admin/$num DELETE not that it matters /admin/$num/exec POST run it, returning the string representation of the immediate return unless it returns a promise? make that a next-time feature /admin/$num/persist POST save it to a directory somewhere to load when the server starts make that a next-time feature /admin/$num/save same as /admin/$num/persist because persist is an annoying way to say it /admin/login GET login form /admin/login POST generate session and set HTTPS-only cookie /admin/mouse GET mouse control via AJAX /admin/mouse POST depends upon xdotool
run server
node serve.js
visit https://localhost:15214/ see links follow links
I want this to be Public Domain, but I think that means I can only accept Public-Domain submissions. So if you send me a pull request, I’m going to assume that you intend for your patch to belong to the Public Domain.