Re: Seeking contact with -notably- commercial users

Hi Steve

maybe I don't understand your question, but actually the server *can*
deliver non textual objects.
There is also an some helpers to ease common cases (see
http_reply_from_files<http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/doc_for?object=http_reply_from_files/3>
)

bye Carlo


2013/11/5 Steve Prior <[email protected]>

> I'm not commercial, but have a wishlist item.  I'd like the http library
> to be able to support serving binary blob objects.  It currently appears
> that the webserver code can only serve the text of a website and not any
> static or dynamic images.  I don't expect Prolog to be able to parse or
> alter jpg's, just to be able to retrieve them from one place (filesystem or
> some other API which returns them as a blob) and deliver them via http.
>  This helps in the more general case where Prolog might be used as a router
> where text and binary data comes into Prolog which then decides where to
> deliver it.  Home automation is my real world need for this.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 10/23/2013 6:57 AM, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know some commercial users and I also know there are more out there
>> that are not on this list and with whom I never had contact directly.
>> Please forward this message if you happen to know such users.
>>
>> Many of you have a wishlist. At this moment, there are several options
>> to get grants for further development if there is co-sponsering from
>> commercial users or -in some cases- merely a statement that "this
>> feature would be of great help for my business". Even without grants,
>> it may be interesting for you to join forces and sponsor development.
>>
>
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