Dear All, Thank you for your valuable feedback.
Is this setup were to be done or developed into a commercial product, how much will the cost be like? Best regards, Tek Bahadur Limbu On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Julius <mycommercials...@web.de> wrote: > Am 18.09.2011 19:01, schrieb Aaron Turner: >> >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:13 AM, harish badrinath >> <harishbadrin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sep 17, 2011, at 1:54 AM, Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can you provide further information about how we can go about >>>>> implementing this setup? >>> >>> These are the steps i would follow >>> (a) First look for a MVC web framework for the language of your choice >>> If you end up with goahead or microhttpd you would be left with C or >>> Something like that, >>> so look for CGIC or a library with similar/more functionality. >>> (b) Build the UI in HTML+CSS >>> (c) Make the UI call cgi scripts and/or special URL your web framework >>> would provide >>> (d) Test and deploy. >>> >>> IMHO you could get better help/suggestions/answers asking in Ruby on >>> rails or catalyst or django community’s dev-help channel(s). >>> >>> If the webserver you deploy with, cant easily handle standard web >>> frameworks (eg: given above) you would have to tinker with them to >>> work with the webserver in question, or write your own. >> >> He doesn't need to learn a MVC framework... he could write a simple >> CGI with a little Ajax to have something perfectly useful in a couple >> of hours. >> >> Seriously, just pick up a book on CGI programming in Perl or whatever >> scripting language of choice or ask someone who has taken a web >> programming course in college. This isn't a "hard" problem or >> specific in any way to tcpdump, it's a pretty simple web programming >> problem. >> >> The only tricky bit is tcpdump needs to run as root and most >> webservers don't run CGI's as root for security reasons. The easiest >> thing is just suid root the tcpdump binary to fix that. Note: that >> this has security implications so you may not want to do this on a >> multi-user system. Hence I'd copy tcpdump to a special location and >> do: >> >> cp tcpdump tcpdump.root >> chmod 750 tcpdump.root >> chown root tcpdump.root >> chmod u+s tcpdump.root >> chgrp tcpdump tcpdump.root >> >> and then anyone in the 'tcpdump' group can run the tcpdump.root binary >> without needing to be root. >> >> > > this can be done with twisted/nevow in python. > > - > This is the tcpdump-workers list. > Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe. > - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
