Linux-Hams archive - November 1998: Re: Serving W3 over ax25

Re: Serving W3 over ax25

Thomas Sailer (bieyhk@bhpbilliton.com)
Wed, 04 Nov 1998 13:51:05 +0100


Willy Peake wrote:

> How can I serve web pages thur my ax25 or netrom port?
> I'm running 2.0.34 with ax25-utils. Everything works fine
> at this point but I would like to add the W3 feature. I would
> like this to be available to both tcp/ip connects and ax25
> connects.

It's pretty simple if you allow TCP and IP between
HTTP and AX.25. That's how everyone around here does it.

Having HTTP directly over AX.25 might give less overhead,
but needs changes to the http server and browsers, so
I guess noone has done so so far.

Tom