> On Mar 13, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Kamil Rytarowski <n...@gmx.com> wrote: > > I propose to start with a webui plugin (bozohttp works with > plugin-like approach) for blacklistd, once finished add a more > advanced one for npf(7). > > An example of a Lua plugin is is located here: > src/libexec/httpd/printenv.lua
I mostly agree with this approach. I think that a documented, unit-tested HTTP API (RESTlike or otherwise) on top of NPF would be a good foundation so that the front-end(s) can be decoupled from the NPF functionality and possibly live in pkgsrc, with the versioned HTTP API living in src. Personally that’s how I’d approach it, front-end framework dependencies can get really crazy really quick. Some front-end frameworks require Node.js and Ruby for example. There’s also the question of how authentication and authorization would work. Just my thoughts and general curiosity! Travis P
