Comments on: Is that an HTTP server in your Cocoa application or are you just pleased to see me?

By: Carlo

Carlo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:24:55 +0000

Hi. So can you please provide the the code for that application? Would be really appreciated!

By: Carlo

Carlo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:24:55 +0000

Hi. So can you please provide the the code for that application? Would be really appreciated!

By: Brent Simmons

Brent Simmons — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:41:15 +0000

Very early betas of NetNewsWire actually embedded an http server. This was before Lite 1.0 shipped.

It handled just one type of request, a request to subscribe to a feed. The idea was that people could put a button on their site that linked to a url like http://127.0.0.1:5335/subscribe?url=http://some.feed/url — and the request would then go to NetNewsWire on your desktop, which would subscribe to the feed. Easy one-click subscribing.

It wasn’t my idea — Radio UserLand was already doing this, and we figured we had to do the same thing.

(But then there was the issue of how to manage two aggregators that want to listen to the same port — and then more apps that would come along and want to listen on that port too. I decided to remove the http server before it became something to fight over.)

But anyway — I always thought the idea was interesting, that connection between web page and the desktop. (It doesn’t have to be feed-subscribing, of course.)

By: Brent Simmons

Brent Simmons — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:41:15 +0000

Very early betas of NetNewsWire actually embedded an http server. This was before Lite 1.0 shipped.

It handled just one type of request, a request to subscribe to a feed. The idea was that people could put a button on their site that linked to a url like http://127.0.0.1:5335/subscribe?url=http://some… — and the request would then go to NetNewsWire on your desktop, which would subscribe to the feed. Easy one-click subscribing.

It wasn't my idea — Radio UserLand was already doing this, and we figured we had to do the same thing.

(But then there was the issue of how to manage two aggregators that want to listen to the same port — and then more apps that would come along and want to listen on that port too. I decided to remove the http server before it became something to fight over.)

But anyway — I always thought the idea was interesting, that connection between web page and the desktop. (It doesn't have to be feed-subscribing, of course.)

By: Jonathan Wight

Jonathan Wight — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:32:02 +0000

Maybe a job for a Sandvox plugin?

By: Jonathan Wight

Jonathan Wight — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:32:02 +0000

Maybe a job for a Sandvox plugin?

By: Dan Wood

Dan Wood — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:22:18 +0000

Great idea Jon -- I had actually considered something similar for Sandvox (though I had been thinking about custom URL schemes) but punted on it (for now at least) since webkit is so similar to viewing with Safari. Still, it would be cool just so people could see what their site would look like with another browser.

Where I see the promise for your idea is for writing some interesting AJAX kinds of web applications in Cocoa.....

By: Dan Wood

Dan Wood — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:22:18 +0000

Great idea Jon — I had actually considered something similar for Sandvox (though I had been thinking about custom URL schemes) but punted on it (for now at least) since webkit is so similar to viewing with Safari. Still, it would be cool just so people could see what their site would look like with another browser.

Where I see the promise for your idea is for writing some interesting AJAX kinds of web applications in Cocoa…..

By: Jonathan Wight

Jonathan Wight — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:51:20 +0000

Yeah Python (and by extension PyObjC) is great for things like this. But I had the code anyway and just needed to polish it up a tad and whip the demo up.

By: Jonathan Wight

Jonathan Wight — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:51:20 +0000

Yeah Python (and by extension PyObjC) is great for things like this. But I had the code anyway and just needed to polish it up a tad and whip the demo up.