Re: [mv] Minivend site on a CD-ROM?

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Christopher Thompson (ct@arborinternet.com):
> 
> I had a client ask if part of their Minivend (3.15) site could be put on
> CD-ROM. That made me wonder if you could run a site locally through Perl and
> the minivend script only without a webserver (obviously with some
> modification). I know MV has a mini webserver in it. Many of the pages in
> question are mostly a big [perl] statements, so recoding the whole thing in
> Perl is Plan A at this point. But the idea of the minivend script serving up
> pages directly sounded interesting.
> 

I actually built one of these once, back in MV3.08 or so days, on
a Windows box. It was going to be a touch-screen kiosk mirroring
an online catalog, but the project never took off.

This effort was mightily helped by the fact that the Windows version
file locking routine was sub {1}. I think I changed the source to not
do sessions, so nothing was ever written.

I have fixed the MSIE redirect problems of the internal web server
in Interchange, so it would be even more possible to do this.

> I know webserverless Minivend sounds hair-brained, but then I thought about
> Mike Heins back in his castle laboratory having Igor reel the kites out
> further so he can get more electricity for his creation . . .
> 

8-) In this case, the hard part would be mapping the right files to the
CDROM. With disk space as cheap as it is, it is probably just easier to
copy from the CDROM via an RPM and put up a demo catalog. And install
Apache at the same time. 8-) But the internal web server would serve
the images if you wanted it to.

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