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--- packet:xrouter:htmlinfopage [2024/02/15 18:42] – created g8pzt
+++ packet:xrouter:htmlinfopage [2025/02/22 02:29] (current) – g8pzt
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+====== XRouter Tour - Sysop Interface #3 - Legacy HTML ======
-====== XRouter Tour - Local Sysop Interface #3 - HTML ======
+[[packet:xrouter:tour|Back to Tour Index Page]]
-{{htmlinfopage.jpg}}
+XRouter includes a general-purpose web server, which has a few inbuilt pages for sysop access. Some of these are positively pre-historic, dating back to the 1990s. For example this default page is displayed if you don't supply your own index.htm...
+{{httproot.png}}
+Pre-historic it may be, but the point is, it is low-bandwidth, intended for HTTP over radio experiments.
+Clicking "nodes" brings up the following page. Clicking on one of the hyperlinked nodes takes you to that node's web server.
+{{oldnodespage.png}}
+In the following example we we have clicked on HAMLET:G7VJA-5 and we can see that he has installed an alternative index.htm page...
+{{g7vjaweb.png}}
+Heres another example, by K5DAT...
+{{k5dat.png}}
+The creativity is up to you. I've seen some very good examples - this isn't one of them :-)
+{{retropage.png}}
+The legacy / low-bandwidth HTML interface is read-only by default, and open to everyone on Packet. However, there was originally a Java applet (remember those!) which allowed command-line access via the browser.
+Next, we'll look at the more modern [[ packet:xrouter:full-fat | "full fat" HTML interface ]]
+[[packet:xrouter:tour|Back to Tour Index Page]]
-(to be continued...)