[Cluster-tech] Client program authors

[Dirk Koopman]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 11:33 +0100, Simon Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Any chance of an example of this? I use your software to create the web
> pages at http://www.ham-radio.ch/dxc/ and would be interested in any future
> options you may propose.
> 
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CC11
frequency
spotted call
date
time
comment
spotter call
spotted country no
spotter country no
origin node call
spotted itu
spotted zone
spotter itu
spotter zone
spotted US/VE state/province
spotter US/VE state/province
spotted decoded country/prefix
spotter decoded country/prefix
spotted QRA square
spotter QRA square

> My software runs under Windows NT with Perl. When you get time it would be
> nice to have a way of adding a spot via a Perl script. I started digging
> into your code but got lost I'm afraid (if there is a way then I'm sorry - I
> haven't found it yet).

You have to login to the node in some way (or have a process that does
that) and then, maybe, send it a dx command in the normal way.

If you are sufficiently interested I could give you a few pointers or
even suggest some sample code. 
 
Essentially you need a client program, such as /spider/perl/console.pl
(but modified) which is logged into the node. You then talk to that
program with a socket, rather than STDIN. Hacking console.pl to do this
would actually mean chopping quite a bit out and adding an accept
handler (to cope with incoming connects from the web service).

Personally, I would then send it PC11s rather than have it do a dx
command (on further thought). You can then control whose callsign the
spot goes out as.

It really isn't hard, honest. Just a small state machine and some socket
programming. Everything is in ASCII and in lines of text.

Dirk