Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Administering the server

[Philippe Plantier]

Guillaume Melquiond wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:19:06 -0600, David White wrote:
>
> > 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.
(snip)
> A local socket is a good solution imo. Minimal work to implement. And
> secure: the socket would be accessed through a ssh tunnel, or an https
> php webpage for example. Authentified and crypted communications,
> these tools provide a level of security that would be painful to reach
> into Wesnoth.

Agreed with Guillaume. The best solution, IMO, would be to go for the 
local socket, and then to add a PHP (or perl, or whatever) 
web-application for remote management. This would keep things simpler.

Regards,

Philippe