Board:   [WWIVnet] General Chat
Subject: Re: BTW
From:    Weatherman #1 @1 (Mark)
To:      Frank Reid #1 @2
Date:    Tue Nov 03, 2026 07:01

FR> It's a start. The design objective was to isolate the telnet traffic to
FR> the device itself, so the user didn't need to futz with potential
FR> firewall or port restrictions required by telnet and SSH, so the user
FR> only needed a browser. File transfers will require a different approach.
FR> Previously, I had rolled a utility (DIR2HTML) that parsed DIRS.DAT to
FR> read each transfer directory and build clickable FTP-based links for each
FR> file, but that's no longer useful, I think. I hope to spend more time on
FR> it going forward.

That sounds like a nice project!  Maybe more people will be interested if there
is no need for a client and can use the native browser without the old now
retired adobe flash, etc.

Is it using html5?

If this could be an overlay on my classic BBS, I could get my xfers working
again.

- Mark

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