[vmchecker-dev] vmchecker web services specification

[Alexandru Moșoi]

2010/2/21 Claudiu-Dan Gheorghe <claudiugh at gmail.com>:
> I've written the specification of the services in a wiki page[1] on
> github. This specification is not very efficient but it is aimed to
> bring a running GUI as quick as possible.

The specification looks good to me. I am confused about
authentication: are we going to use LDAP or implementit ourselves? In
the future we might want to separate tester and storer as two
completely different services, but for now GUI is a priority :).


> We are not sure what we should use on the web server. Our idea is to
> use mod_python on Apache. If you have any suggestions, please let us
> know.

mod_python is one way to go, though I had some problems configuring it
so I had to recompile it a few times (some configuration is chosen at
compile time). other than that it's great. an alternative to
mod_python would be cherrypy [2]. I used both: cherrypy is easier, but
usually for more complex sites; mod_python is more lowlevel and has a
smaller community. For vmchecker my vote goes to mod_python.


> [1] http://wiki.github.com/vmchecker/vmchecker/vmchecker-web-services

[2] http://www.cherrypy.org/

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Alexandru Moșoi
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