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From: | David White |
Subject: | [Wesnoth-dev] Administering the server |
Date: | Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:19:06 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) |
The current interface is to send commands using a fifo that is on the system wesnothd is on, and wesnothd responds on stdout, but I think we need a better system than this.
One idea I have is to allow specification of a port which wesnothd opens and listens for administration commands on. Commands would be issued in some simple plain text protocol and wesnothd would respond in simple plain text -- so telnet would be a capable client. Authentication may or may not be required, but whether it is or not the main security mechanism would be through a firewall restricting access to the port to hosts that should have access.
Any thoughts on this? I think if we have a nice simple interface like this, we could then even build e.g. a web interface that'd allow administration.
David
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