[aprssig] User created findU pages

Thu May 5 21:26:35 EDT 2005

     From:       steve at dimse.com
     Subject:     User created findU web pages
     Date:     May 5, 2005 9:11:46 PM EDT
     To:       steve at dimse.com

On Apr 23, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Steve Dimse wrote:

> This would be a nice project for someone else to do, let the user  
> specify a url in the page request, the server grabs the user's page  
> from his own web space (everyone can get web space somewhere) and  
> replaces any variables using Brad's XML service.
>
>

Here is a proof of concept. First, at this URL

http://www.aprs.net/test-replace.html

I have this file:

------------
<html>
<body>
This is a test of the replace cgi...
<br>
The speed of $call is $speed!

</body>
</html>
-------------

I placed this on a different virtual server than findU.com to  
emphasize this file is to reside on the user's server, not one of  
mine. When you pass a callsign and the URL to the replace cgi like this:

http://findu.com/cgi-bin/replace.cgi?call=K4HG-8&url=http:// 
www.aprs.net/test-replace.html

You get output that looks like this:

This is a test of the replace cgi...
The speed of K4HG-8 is 56.0!

Right now these are the only two variables this supports. I'll  
consider developing this further if there is interest, but really,  
this is something I'd much rather see someone else do...

So any interest from users or programmers?

Steve K4HG