[erlang-questions] inets for web services? (Tom Samplonius)

[bryan rasmussen]

I was just wondering what functionality the REST based service is
going to need? I was thinking of making a REST based server (which for
me would mean building in tracking of moved resources so as to
automatically respond with correct response code for such resources)

what were you planning on putting in yours?


Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen
On 4/26/07, Ingela Anderton Andin <ingela@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> >   I need to build a very simple web service (REST), as part of a simple async messaging server.  However, using inets seems to be a bit of challenge.  It is a full blown web server, and the documentation is pretty dense.  Is there better documentation than:
> >
> > http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/inets/part_frame.html
> >
> > ?
> >
> You don't like it! You should try the "mishmas" of older releases ;) (I
> am afraid there is no better documentation at the moment.)Well jokes
> aside I know there is still room for  improvement.  Most of the
> information is there but I agree there ought to be a minimal example,
> and there will be some day in the future, it is a question of time.
> Also it  could probably be even more structured,
> now at least  there is a structure as opposed to the total chaos of the
> much older inets.
> > The first problem, I found is "Modules" is a required directive (which is not mentioned).  And "BindAddress *" is not only not the default, or it does not work on FreeBSD, as I had to explicitly define the IP.
> >
> Modules should have a default  value the required attributes of
> httpd.conf should be:  server_name, port, server_root, document_root.
> Although just glancing at what should be default I am not sure that it
> will actually work. Alas there is a lot of legacy  stuff in the
> http-server I will make a job description for us to look into that.
>
> >   Is there any documentation on a minimal inets config for a web service?  It looks like I need a minimum, of a inets.config, httpd.conf, and a mime.types file too.
> >
> >
> Yes those should be the files that you need.
> The mime.types is hard coded to  be located under  $SERVER_ROOT/conf
> (god knows why) and is mandatory. We plan to change
> that.
>  There is an example under  inets/examples but it is not minimal.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards Ingela -OTP team
>
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