Not especially a Clojure question, though my app is in Clojure, so I have all the tools of the JVM to work with.
Suppose I release a small Clojure app that people should run on the servers, and it releases some data over some port. Let's say port 40000. The idea is that I want this data from them, and so I'm trying to make it easy for them to publish this data. I release this app as an open source, and I hope people will run in on their servers. I assume these people will be running all kinds of apps on their servers: PHP apps, Rails apps, NodeJS apps, Java apps, WordPress, Django, etc. What's the easiest way to let those apps ping my app? I don't want to assume port 80 because I assume they already have some app using port 80. And if we are talking about a typical WordPress developer, they might lack the skill to know how to establish a reverse proxy. So I thought perhaps the easiest thing would be to listen on a file socket? Because I think even a beginner PHP programmer would know how to write data to a file socket? There are lots of examples of 10 lines snippets teaching them how to do it. I could also ask them to simply send a HTTP request to my server, though I'm wondering if there is anything I can do that would be even easier and more automatic than that. I suppose I could write an app that watches their log files, though that would mean keeping in mind the different formats of Rails logs versus Apache logs, and knowing where the crucial data would appear. And even Apache and Nginix logs can be configured to show more or less data on different servers. But I am just guessing. Does anyone have a thought about this? I'm trying to think of the most automatic way to get data about certain activities that happen on their server, which they may wish to advertise. I might just go with a traditional "they should ping my API" but if I could think of something even more automatic, that would be ideal. Watching their log files would be the easiest thing, though the logs are not 100% standard. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
