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[Karthik Swaminathan Nagaraj <nkarthiks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, krishnan
<krishnan.parthasarathi@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 July 2010 09:46 AM, Karthik Swaminathan Nagaraj wrote:
>
>> So I agree that (2) is coupled with a webserver. I imagined the backup
>> server to be running on a remote machine. I suggested that the webserver
>> could be run as a portable application. By making it portable, the user can
>> carry it around in a flash drive and use it to browse his files on the
>> backup server (without installing the client at say a public computer). The
>> advantages compared to using a webserver provided by the backup server is
>> the local handling of keys.
>>
> When you say 'portable application' I guess you are referring to the
> browser UI engine. See Architecture diag in
> http://www.nkarthiks.info/acmeattic/index.php?title=Implementation
> This needs an Apache installation and configuration on that machine where
> you intend to run it. It would be easier to install the client cli
> application wherever you go, in terms of user privileges on the system.
>
I've mentioned this on the Wiki also, but portable web servers like XAMPP
are available which the user could use.
I should admit that I have not thought a lot about the portability of the
client app itself.
Though I just found a use-case, I am not advocating a redesign or
complicating the design.
Separating the web server from core has other advantages such as scaling up
services.

> For further discussions on architecture we shall use the diagram on the
> wiki for naming components.
>
> cheers,
> krishnan
>
>
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Karthik