[Asterisk-Users] PBX Console

[Scott Lambert]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 06:49:59PM -0500, Mark Spencer wrote:
> Might also think about VNC for doing the console.

And run X and VNC on the server to suck up both server and network
resources?

Yuck.  Why not just have a web interface?  Or build your own protocol
for the GUI to use across the network.

The CGI web interface benefits from the fact that HTTP is a mature
protocol, and suffers from the fact that it doesn't save state.  With
your own protocol, you can notify the gui of updates without resending
all of the data.

With your own protocol for a client/server approach, the GUI can be text
or java or Windows or X or OS/2 or Aqua or Amiga or ... Of course, the
same can be said for the CGI web interface. :-)

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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