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-====== XRouter Tour - Local Sysop Interface #3 - HTML ======+====== XRouter Tour - Sysop Interface #3 - Legacy HTML ====== 
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 +[[packet:xrouter:tour|Back to Tour Index Page]]
  
 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... 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...
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 Pre-historic it may be, but the point is, it is low-bandwidth, intended for HTTP over radio experiments. 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. 
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 +{{oldnodespage.png}}
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 +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...
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 +{{g7vjaweb.png}}
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 +Heres another example, by K5DAT...
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 +{{k5dat.png}}
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 +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 ]]
  
-{{htmlinfopage.jpg}}+[[packet:xrouter:tour|Back to Tour Index Page]]
  
-(to be continued...) 
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