Home AOLserver @ am.net This site was originally established in order to distribute our contributions to the AOLserver source. We figure this might be a good time to share what we've learned in developing with AOLserver since 1995! Here, along with our AOLserver source contributions, we plan to put up interesting Web apps. we've developed, some of our internal AOLserver notes, and maybe a FAQ or two.
Right now we have the following sections up:
- Browse AOLserver Sources
- AOLserver Source Contributions
- AOLserver Notes (right now just contains ODBC setup instructions; in the future it will contain more How-Tos, a FAQ, etc.)
- Original AOLserver Documentation for several versions
- Other AOLserver Resources
December 5th, 2004:An early Christmas gift to the AOLserver community - a better way to browse AOLserver C sources! To help assist in the documentation effort we thought it would be helpful to be able to go straight to the C command source from the tcl API command. In addition, it would be great to be able to navigate the sources as a set of hyperlinked documents, where clicking on each command invoked takes you to the definition of that command within the appropriate file. We have implemented just that - we retrieve the C files as formatted by SourceForge's CVS browser and then massage them a little bit to analyze what files define what commands and to enable the navigation. Check out the result here. We hope you will find it helpful.
June 30th, 2000:
Despite the small size of our Internet Development department we're still goin' strong with AOLserver. We've Open Source'd our getHTTP module which implements a Tcl command that will download a file via http (nothing you couldn't figure out yourself). We've also written ODBC Setup Instructions for AOLserver which is in our new AOLserver Notes section.
October 11th, 1999:
We've finished bringing ADPs from AOLserver 3 into an AOLserver 2.1 C module. We're very happy with the results. The code is clean and most of it is straight over from AOLserver 3.
Thanks to Michael Blair for pointing out a bug in our ASP-style ADP parser (we weren't using -nonewline in our ns_adp_puts calls). We've corrected the problem, fixed some code style errors (damn Emacs tabs!), and released a new version.
September 2nd, 1999:
Now that we've recovered from our vacations, we have finished version 1.1 of our ASP-style ADP parser. Thanks to George instead of being a drop-in replacement for adp.c, our new version is a module which cleanly plugs in using the new function Ns_AdpRegisterParser which was just introduced in beta 3 of AOLserver 3.0.
July 27, 1999:
Let us know what you think aolserver@am.net.
- Our first goal is to bring ADPs into AOLserver 2.1. We've already completed the majority of the work and will post our module when complete.
- As a tangent to the above, and to allow us "page scope" ADP variables, we've written a non-fancy ADP parser which allows for partial Tcl statements (think ASP-style). Check it out. Hopefully the AOLserver gods will review it and find it worthy to be included in the official AOLserver release. In the mean time to keep the AOLserver gods happy we will be making Penguin sacrifices. In between the oblations we will work on a fancy "ASP-style" parser.
- Our long term goal is to port all of AOLserver 3 to Windows NT (notice the Microsoft font). Right now we don't have the resources to do this and instead our converting some of the interesting post-2.1 features to 2.1 C modules.
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