[aprssig] User created findU pages
Mark Cheavens
mcheavens at usa.net
Thu May 5 22:12:30 EDT 2005
Steve,
I'd like to see heading and a time of last packet (that could be +/- GMT so
that you could display local time or "minutes" ago. (packet age).
I do use some of the other features you support. My favorite map for
Houston use is:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/line.cgi?call=KC5EVE!Mark&geo=http://www.cheavens.com/maps/HouTraffic.geo&start=2
Mark
KC5EVE
At 08:26 PM 5/5/2005, you wrote:
> 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:
>
>------------
>This is a test of the replace cgi...
>The speed of $call is $speed!
>-------------
>
>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
>
>
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