Data Translators?

Yes. Notepad Server and Agenda Server are 'Translators' that access the Newton's specialized data structures, translate them to HTML (if needed), and pass them into an output stream maintained by nHTTPd. You can serve NO information without at least one of these packages installed.

Installation

  1. ERASE any version of Notepad Server you have installed currently.
  2. Use your package installer to load Notepad Server and Agenda Server (if you wish) onto your Newton. They will appear in the Extensions folder as pHTML:MAVON and pDATES:MAVON.
  3. Lets' now test your ability to serve information to the WWW.

Testing Your Server

  1. Open nHTTPd and establish a connection. Then look in the field where an IP address is displayed. This is your server's IP. If you are friendly with your ISP or system admin, request a static IP and DNS be assigned to your Newton. For instance, my Newton always gets vaughn.life.uiuc.edu from my local PPP server.
  2. Go to a web browser on another machine with an Internet connection and go to
    http://insert.ip.address.here/html/ (and don't forget the trailing slash!) to access the Notepad Server component and go to
    http://insert.ip.address.here/dates/ (again, the slash) to see your Agenda Server.
  3. Accessing Notepad Server sucessfully will give you a page with your name, address, phone, and email followed by a blank space and then some credits if you have no content in your Notepad that's ready to serve.
  4. Accessing Agenda Server will present you with a formatted page containing all your Meetings and Events for the next 5 days. The first time you access it, your Newton will pause for a few seconds while your dates are converted to nice HTML formatting. The good news is that this HTML code is cached in a soup and is only re-generated once per hour (or at the first request after an hour has passed).

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